{"id":11678,"date":"2012-07-27T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=11678"},"modified":"2012-07-27T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T06:27:53","slug":"guest-post-the-seven-traits-of-highly-unsuccessful-people-or-troubled-families-a-moral-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/07\/27\/guest-post-the-seven-traits-of-highly-unsuccessful-people-or-troubled-families-a-moral-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"[Guest Post] Troubled Families: A Moral Maze, or The Seven Traits of Highly Unsuccessful People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on the guest soapbox, it’s artist and comics creator Howard Hardiman<\/strong><\/a>. The eagle-eyed among you will remember us previously mentioning<\/a> his comics The Lengths<\/strong><\/a> and (with Julia Scheele and Sarah Gordon) The Peckham Invalids<\/strong><\/a> <\/a> in these pages. <\/p>\n

If you’ve got a guest post brewing in your brain, pitch us at badrepeditors@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Concrete<\/a>Last night, I was drawing away at my desk with Radio 4 on in the background and idly chatting to my boyfriend, who is in Poland at the moment. <\/p>\n

A Moral Maze<\/strong><\/a> came on the radio, aiming to address the moral challenges around the government’s Troubled Families<\/a> initiative, in the wake of the government’s ‘Broken Britain Tsar’, Louise Casey, suggesting that women in these families should be financially discouraged from having more children if they are struggling to cope at present. This comes off the back of Eric Pickles saying we’re too politically correct to lay blame where it belongs, which is with the troubled families where recidivistic criminality and truancy endures across several generations.<\/p>\n

It is, they suggest, a moral failure of the families who languish on benefits that they do not lift themselves out of antisocial behaviour and state dependency.<\/p>\n

In this Moral Maze<\/strong><\/a>, it was said more than once “we all know who these families are” when panel members asked for clarification on whether they were discussing troubled or troublesome families.<\/p>\n

The criteria for being regarded as a Troubled Family are that a family has five or more of the following seven traits:<\/p>\n