Mother Tongue

Following tonight's Question Time, I quite agree that an inability to speak English can trap people in the house.

But there are not mothers bringing up children while speaking only a language that their children cannot speak.

There may be fathers like that. There always have been. That is not ideal. But it is believable.

Most people never think about it, because most people's parents both had the same first language, but the mother tongue is called that for a reason.

How did these women's children ever learn to speak at all? It is obvious that this whole suggestion is as preposterous as it is pernicious.