Some felt their children had been hurt by the family breakdown and that they needed additional care.
The period covering Christmas and the new year is notorious for family breakdown.
The core problem in black communities is not family breakdown, its the fact that there are all too few 'families' to break down.
A growing proportion of children are affected by family breakdown.
That is a function of Government, not of family breakdown.
He added that "The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
Special education costs continue to rise, in step with students' problems related to family breakdown, poverty and substance abuse.
It calls on government, communities and families to take action to solve problems early to prevent family breakdown.
Third, we need to look at how we can protect children in the event of family breakdown.
And we know that family breakdown plays a big part in cycles of disadvantage.