article_snippet: But if the same mother had separated from the father of the same mother child, the same mother income would drop dramatically to £23,000 a year.
article_snippet: Sir Coleridge told The Sunday Times: 'The better-off on the whole stay together, and so preserve and increase their wealth for the next generation. '
article_snippet: The less well-off, on the other hand, are marrying less and less, staying together less and less, and seeing the perpetuation of their poverty into future generations.'
article_snippet: Sir Coleridge is now launching a manifesto for political parties to tackle family breakdown, estimated to cost tax payers £47billion a year.
article_snippet: It's about parents being able to collaborate on things such as childcare.
article_snippet: If you're offered a promotion but have just gone through a relationship breakdown, you will not have the support network, and energy goes out of the career,' she added.