Summary
Politicians love talking about supporting families. But, asks Jo Fidgen, do they understand modern family life? And how far can or should the state change the way families live? There's endless focus on young children and childcare, while family care for the elderly is rarely mentioned. She hears from policy insiders, those who have to define families to make their businesses work, individuals facing extraordinary challenges as family life changes with society and across the generations.
Producer: Chris Bowlby Editor: Hugh Levinson.
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| 0:39.1 | This is Analysis and in this edition Joe Fijon is inviting you to meet the family. |
| 0:45.0 | Did you hear what the Prime Minister said about families at the Conservative Party conference? |
| 0:50.0 | We in this party, we are a trade union too, and I tell you who we represent. |
| 0:57.0 | This party is the union for hardworking parents, for the father who reads his children's |
| 1:02.0 | stories at night because he wants them to learn. |
| 1:04.0 | The mother who works all the hours God sends to give her children the best... |
| 1:08.0 | David Cameron a shop steward. There's an image. |
| 1:11.0 | Well now he wants to turn his rhetoric into action. Back in August he |
| 1:15.1 | announced that from this autumn the family would be at the heart of government and |
| 1:19.2 | all new domestic policy ideas assessed for their impact on the family and here's why. |
| 1:26.0 | When you fall on tough times, it is family that brings up children, teaches values, passes |
| 1:31.9 | on knowledge, instills in all of us the responsibility to be good citizens |
| 1:36.8 | and to live in harmony with others. And so for someone from my political viewpoint |
| 1:42.0 | who believes in building a stronger society |
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