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Article: SWINGING SIXTIES SAVAGED BY BLAIR
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2004
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TONY BLAIR today launched an extraordinary attack on the decline
of the traditional family and the rise of "different lifestyles".
In a speech which risks a backlash from single parents' groups and
Labour MPs, the Prime Minister said the culture of the "Swinging
Sixties" was partly to blame for crime and social breakdown.
"A society of different lifestyles spawned a group of young people
who were brought up without parental discipline, without proper role
models and without any sense of responsibility to others," said Mr
Blair. "All of this was then multiplied in effect by the economic and
social changes that altered the established pattern of community life
in cities, towns and villages."