Angela Epstein: Absent fathers can't be likened to killer drivers

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'And what a message it was. Doubtless leaving wife Sam and a team of hired help holding the fort (and the baby), David Cameron declared war on absent fathers, storming that they should be stigmatised by society in the same way as drink drivers.

I realise that having Nick Clegg yoked round his neck like a clingy girlfriend has put our prime minister under unimaginable stress.
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How does an absent father compare with a reckless driver who, fuelled by a tank full of booze, turns his car into a killing machine?

Perhaps our esteemed leader should pay a visit to the Partington home of Amanda and Phil Peak, whose two boys Arron, 10, and Ben, eight, were killed after drunken footballer Luke McCormick ploughed into their family car at 100mph on the M6.'