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The central thrust of family law is to protect the child in whatever kind of family they live. All families need support: it does children no good at all if we undermine the kind of family that they happen to live in.
However, they should be as widespread in this country as they are in Australia and the Republic of Ireland. For example, my son Mark, who lives in Sydney, banks with the Resources Credit Union.
Are they saying that families with children should not be locked up, but should live in communities where their children can get mainstream education and that there should be another way of monitoring where those families live?