Property ladder and snakes?

As home ownership declines  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14708841  so much is getting mentioned about first time buyers and the struggle to get on the property ladder.  The snake side of it always seems to get skipped over; with divorces forever increasing the male usually looses his home, if he does manage to buy another the chances are he will struggle to keep up with mortgage and bizarre CSA maintenance payments, hence loss of home, cheap bedsit follows, even less contact with children, charities help as the government doesn’t – all sad facts that very few try take on…