Men without a purpose
By Simon Heffer 118 words
Publication date: 11 July 2009 Source: The Daily Telegraph
Page: 27 (c) 2009 Telegraph Group Limited, London
Research by Manchester University has found that working-class men struggle to break out of their backgrounds and move up the career ladder. I am amazed that it required any research.
It is not just that they are made socially redundant by our appalling education system – and are worse off than their fathers and grandfathers, who had the chance of a grammar school. It is that the state demotivates them by providing all sorts of auxiliary parenting services for the mothers of their children, making them even more pointless. If we want to help them move up that ladder, let’s at least offer them the right sort of help.
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