{"id":42102,"date":"2014-01-16T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_dysfunctional_separated_parents_should_be_open_to_criticism_say_s\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:30:37","slug":"telegraph_dysfunctional_separated_parents_should_be_open_to_criticism_say_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42102","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Dysfunctional separated parents should be open to criticism, say some MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough, said family breakdown had become a \u201cmodern plague\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed a \u201cconspiracy of silence\u201d\u009d perpetrated by the Church, the BBC, Parliament and the Press that discouraged people from speaking up for marriage. It has left hundreds of thousands of children \u201cliving a tragic life,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our permissive society a view has grown up that people are happiest if they are totally liberated. It is about \u201d\u02dcme\u2019,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cWe are told Britain has changed and we have to accept it but don\u2019t we have a responsibility to speak out for what\u2019s right?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10572667\/Actually-we-should-judge-separated-parents-say-Tory-MPs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough, said family breakdown had become a \u201cmodern plague\u201d\u009d. He blamed a \u201cconspiracy of silence\u201d\u009d perpetrated by the Church, the BBC, Parliament and the Press that discouraged people from speaking up for marriage. It has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42102\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,101,389,635,199,168,114,98,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}