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As was pointed out at Second Reading by quite a number of people, the family unit is not always the soft sell, welcoming environment that we all would like to see. It can be brutal, bitter and vicious, and pressure can be applied. Take people in economic difficulties—young, married, with a family and a big mortgage, and there is Granny sitting in a half a million pound house. You can see straight away what will happen. The noble and learned Lord perhaps needs to address this.