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  • 23/05/2025
2.5 million children in the UK have no father figure at home, representing one in five of all dependent children. Almost half of first-born children by age 14 do not live with both natural parents. …boys are more likely now to own a smartphone than to live with their dad.

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00:00A article from Intercessors for Britain, Lost Boys, it's called.
00:072.5 million children in the UK have no father figure at home,
00:12representing one-fifth of all dependent children.
00:16Almost half of first-born children by the age of 14 do not live with both parents.
00:21Boys are more likely now to own a smartphone than live with their fathers.
00:2476% of children in custody said they had an absent father.
00:31With the annual cost of the prisoner being £50,000,
00:33father engagement is imperative for cost-saving,
00:36reducing the prison population and life-saving measures.
00:41Two parliamentary reports have now been completed
00:43on the increasing number of female teachers
00:46reporting sexual harassment from male pupils in schools.
00:50Over half of child sex abuse and exploitation is now child-on-child,
00:54with boys accounting for 9 out of 10 perpetrators.
00:58The first six months of 2023 had reports of sextortion
01:02increased by 257% from the previous year,
01:06with boys again making up 91% of those affected.
01:10Sextortion is a kind of online blackmail
01:13when criminals threaten to share sexual pictures, videos or information about you
01:18unless you pay money or do something else you don't want to do.
01:22This is all in the context of a quarter of young men likely watching porn every or most days
01:28and 80% of pornographic scenes containing physical violence.
01:33The website Pornhub, according to 90% of videos contain some kind of violence towards women.
01:41Over 50% of users are children.
01:45Similarly, 50% of 10-year-olds have watched porn, according to the NSPCC.
01:50Do you see there's a connection between that and the way people behave?
01:53There has to be.
01:54And just recently, the Netflix released a four-part drama called Adolescence.
02:01Anybody heard about this one?
02:02It's been big in the news.
02:03And I did actually watch it.
02:05I thought it was pretty appalling.
02:07But it depicts an investigation of why a 13-year-old boy murdered his female classmate.
02:12The series has been watched over 66 million times in its first two weeks.
02:19And the Prime Minister has said in the Commons that he's watched it with his children.
02:23The government's now proposing that adolescence should be used as a teaching resource in schools.
02:29So they want to take it into the schools and use this to get children off violence
02:33and off watching bad stuff on their medias.
02:36In the film, it tells about a 13-year-old boy called Jamie who stabs a female schoolmate to death
02:43after apparently being radicalised by online, by so-called manosphere and incel,
02:49that's involuntarily celibate culture,
02:51with the influencer Alan Drew Tate name-checked in the script.
02:57Apparently, incel means online community of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually,
03:03typically associated with views that are hostile towards women and men who are sexually active.
03:10Referencing this lad, Jamie, he's described as being involuntarily celibate,
03:15and he wants to be attracted to women, but he doesn't feel that they're attracted to him,
03:20and so he has a grudge against them.
03:22Point is, he's 13 years old, so they're telling you that children 13 years old should be sexually active, basically.
03:28Another thing which is questionable, why this should be presented to children in school.
03:34In fact, if they're watching this and they're 13 years old and they're not involved in any kind of sexual feelings,
03:40then they might feel that they're inadequate and there's something wrong with them.
03:44Also, I watched it and it's full of the most foul language.
03:47Almost every other word is the F word,
03:49and it's being used not just by pupils but also by teachers and by the police.
03:53So the establishment figures are using all this language as well.
03:58It shows very bad behavior in the classrooms, in the schools, and disorder.
04:03And it gives the idea that the psychology is you can get to the bottom root of the problem
04:07and explain what's going wrong.
04:10There's a psychiatrist becomes a kind of priest which you confess your problems to,
04:14and they give you some kind of absolution and some kind of redemption.
04:19And of course, there's no mention of God anywhere.
04:21There's no mention of moral values, no mention of anything like that,
04:25or the possibility of repentance and forgiveness for doing wrong.
04:30And it's part of, I see it, a basic assault which is coming through the government,
04:34through the social services, and through the education system.
04:38And I speak as an ex-teacher, and I couldn't imagine actually presenting that film in one of my lessons.
04:43I'd be totally embarrassed, and it would, as far as I can see,
04:47create the opposite effect of what they want.