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I am here today to voice this growing issue of how traditional family values appear to lose all significance. The dictionary's definition of family values verifies our mistakes. Family - group of parents and their children. In most cases, there aren't two parents. Children are left to fend for themselves. Values - importance, usefulness, monetary worth, moral principles. These words don't stand a chance in family households unless something is done. It has come to my attention that families are easy to achieve in most cases. Children are born but the values are depraved. In most cases a family consists of one parent, since 1971 the proportion of all people living in "traditional" family households of married couples with dependent children has fallen from 52% to 37%. David Green, director of the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If you take almost any measure - how well children...

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