If Conservatives are serious about protecting the family it would make more sense to tighten up divorce laws
As a political tradition, Conservatism has always been caught between the desire to tell us what to do and the demand that people be left alone. It has always been a vocal advocate of national institutions at the same time as being sceptical of the power of government to make the world a better place. Much of the time, these confusions remain beneath the surface. Just occasionally, as they have on family policy, they show up.
On one side of the fault line is the school of thought that believes it is the job of politics to describe ideal forms