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Once upon a time, a politician and a government department came up with a really super idea to cut the extensive expenditure on single parent families and, being terribly concerned about the millions spent on lone women with very young children in particular, set about creating (or did it all happen by accident?) a scheme to make men pay for their uncontrollable urges, and mothers for letting them have their wicked way. The taxes paid by good, oldfashioned families (the ones with ‘values’) would not in future, be diverted to support, in grand style, these profligates and their offspring. As a result, in true fairytale style, the world would be a better place.
