I wonder if Unity ever realises how many of the true parasites, the ones who regard it as ‘normal’ because generations have done it in their areas, have second jobs, work cash in hand, and steal.

No, probably not. Reality is hard to face. Better thy be helpless victims, deserving of socialist largesse instead.

Births to teenage mothers are particularly likely to take place outside marriage. In 2000 almost nine in ten live births to women aged under 20 in England and Wales occurred outside marriage. Mothers in this age group are also the most likely to have a birth outside marriage registered without the father’s details: just over a quarter (27 per cent) of births to teenage mothers were registered solely by the mother.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=4985&More=Y
(NB: they originally included all under 20, a spike that shows in Unity’s graphs)

“benefits culture is a myth”

This is ********. Unity makes the mistake (which many people do, all the time) of believing that everyone shares his values. Most people would not choose to live on welfare, but it is a myth that it is not highly profitable for some people. My family is very much a middle-class, hard-work-pays, etc. culture, but my cousin (a highly intelligent guy) and the mother of his daughter (a highly intelligent woman) played the system to great effect. The pair lived apart because it was not profitable to live together. They did not marry because it was not profitable to do so. They rented subsidised flats in the same building and although they had separate addresses lived together. The mother always described herself as “professionally unemployed”. Her premise was that there would always be X million unemployed, why should it not be her?

As Mr Harris says, there are many people who have been talked so far down by socialism that they think they have nothing to offer, then the welfare state steps in and tells them they can make money out of parenthood. I think that is wrong on so many different levels.