UK: Cameron's poverty guru targets feckless men

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"Britain should stop its obsession with getting single mothers into work and pursue unemployed fathers, David Cameron's poverty adviser said last night. Frank Field, the Labour MP commissioned to carry out a review of poverty, blasted young dads who feel jobs paying less than £300 a week are not worth their while.
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He said that in many households, the role of the father as the breadwinner had been taken over by the taxpayer. Speaking at a lecture to the Attlee Foundation, a charity working in disadvantaged areas, he claimed the debate about poverty had been 'feminised', letting feckless fathers off the hook for living off benefits and failing to support their families.
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He said men who refused to take a job offered to them should have their benefits cut altogether.

'The reason why we have so many single mums is because we have so many single dads who cannot fulfil what most single mothers want from their partners, and the children from their fathers', he said.

For a large section of what used to be the core of the Labour vote - working-class women - what they say they most want is a husband or partner in work which allows them their private domain of the family.'"