FAH - T7 - FAMILY AND SOCIAL POLICY
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- FAH - T7 - FAMILIES AND SOCIAL POLICY
- Comparative view of family policy
- how do policies affect family life? Direct: marriage, divorce. Indirect: education, work
- China One Child policy: gov. population control over women - allowed one child. Only children prioritised in education system.
- Communist Romania: 1980's reduced contraception, divorce difficult to obtain, lowered marriage age. All to increase birth rate - declining since fall in living standard
- Nazi family policy - racially pure to breed master race. Restricting abortion. Official policy reduced women to home, no working, expressive role
- state sterilised 375,000 disabled people. Deemed unfit to breed - them murdered in concentration camps
- Perspectives
- Fletcher: Functionalism
- policy helps family perform role, better life for members.
- Fletcher: introduction of health NHS, means families can take care of sick, perform role for society agan
- assumes all family members benefit equally.
- assumes MoP view as if policy improves things.
- Donzelot: policing the family (conflict view)
- state controls families through policy
- poor families more likely to be seen as problem - surveyed regularly
- Foucault: use of surveillance allows families to be controlled by those with knowledge, e.g. Drs, social workers
- poor families more likely to be seen as problem - surveyed regularly
- does not show WHO benefits. Marxist - men. Female - women
- state controls families through policy
- Almond: The New Right
- favour Nuclear family - brings stability and reliant care for members
- state policy encourage change and undermine nuclear family.
- laws make divorce easier. - imply nuclear family not dominant Allow gays - sends out message that straight couples aren't superior
- increased rights for cohabiting makes marriage and cohabiting similar - state not prefer marriage
- laws make divorce easier. - imply nuclear family not dominant Allow gays - sends out message that straight couples aren't superior
- state policy encourage change and undermine nuclear family.
- Murray: Lone parents, welfare policy, dependency culture
- providing state welfare undermines nuclear family and encourages deviant family types in society.
- fathers abandon children as state provides
- girls become pregnant to get council house
- state encourages dependency culture. Threatens family functions of providing socialisation of young and mens work ethic
- New Right solution: cut welfare benefits, restrictions on who gets benefits. Reduce taxes gives fathers incentive to work.
- providing state welfare undermines nuclear family and encourages deviant family types in society.
- assume patriarchal family is natural and not constructed
- no benefits make poor poorer - more dependency culture
- New right influence on policy
- Coalition gov 2010-15.
- Hayton: two types of Tory: modernists - accept family diversity. Traditionalists - reject non nuclear families.
- coalition weakened traditionalists - introduction of gay marriage opposes new right
- Hayton: two types of Tory: modernists - accept family diversity. Traditionalists - reject non nuclear families.
- Labour 97-2010
- contrast N.R - recognise women work - maternity leave
- Tory gov 1979-97
- Thatcher: banned homosexual adverts and divorce stigmatised
- Coalition gov 2010-15.
- favour Nuclear family - brings stability and reliant care for members
- Feminsim
- conflict view - society = patriarchally dominated
- Land: policy as SFP:
- many social policies assume ideal family is patriarchal nuclear family - then affects kind of policy governed to fam.life. e.g. assumes marriage - tax incentive to married
- Policy supporting patriarchal family:
- childcare - expenses means women cannot work - dependent on husbands
- child benefit paid to mother - assumes childcare is women responsibility
- Land: policy as SFP:
- some policy inproves women's rights - e.g. **** in marriage = illegal. Equal pay act
- conflict view - society = patriarchally dominated
- Fletcher: Functionalism
- Comparative view of family policy
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