Britain must end its obsession with getting young single mothers into work, and focus on young, unemployed fathers whose historic role as the family breadwinner has had to be taken over by the taxpayer, Frank Field, David Cameron's poverty adviser, has said.

Field claimed many of these young, unemployed fathers will not accept offers of work for less than £300 a week since they feel it is not worth their while.

He suggests that men who refuse to take up a government offer of work should have their benefit removed altogether, a far tougher sanction than they face under the current benefits regime.

Field, the Labour MP who was commissioned by the government to carry out a review of poverty, said: "The reason why we have so many single mums is because we have so many single dads who cannot fulfil what most single mothers want from their partners, and the children from their fathers."

The reason why we have so many single mums is because we have so many single dads who cannot fulfil what most single mothers want from their partners

He suggests that men who refuse to take up a government offer of work should have their benefit removed altogether, a far tougher sanction than they face under the current benefits regime.

"The reason why we have so many single mums is because we have so many single dads who cannot fulfil what most single mothers want from their partners, and the children from their fathers."

Surely if a single parent had a partner they wouldn't be single. Or are they saying they are claiming to be single to get the benefits?

IMO we need to be much stricter with benefits. Other countries do so quite well and still manage to have better standards of living than the UK.

Women almost certainly being given custody doesn't help matters either.

Perhaps we'd have a few fewer single mums if some of these women got a little better at keeping their knees together.

Just a thought.

It takes two to tango - they can't get pregnant on their own!

Perhaps we'd have a few fewer single mums if some of these women got a little better at keeping their knees together.

Just a thought.

So, all single mums are slappers?

That's a bit harsh, don't you think?

Almost all of the people I know who have grown up with a single mother have learned (from their mother) to hate their father, and that's a shame. A few, as they got older, asked about their dad and sought to create a relationship with their dad in their teenage years with the reluctant help of their mother. I know that in quite a few cases, mothers actively try to prevent fathers from having access to their children which I consider absolutely disgraceful and should be clamped down on HARD (if it isn't already).

So, all single mums are slappers?