Families and social policy
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- Created on: 02-06-22 16:12
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- Family and social policy
- functionalist view
- Social policies have been helpful in maintaining consensus in society and allowing for society to run more effectively
- E.g NHS is helpful as it can care for the sick
- Social policies have been helpful in maintaining consensus in society and allowing for society to run more effectively
- New right view
- Social policies for the family should not encourage family diversity
- Social policy is leading to social issues e.g lone parenthood and teen pregnancy
- Welfare should be cut and policies should be stricter
- Feminist views
- Social policies help to reinforce patriarchy and do this through:
- Making it difficult for women to claim social benefits as their husbands should be providing
- Restricting women from working by having high childcare fees
- Keeping maternity pay and time far higher to reinforce the idea that women should stay at home and look after children
- Assumptionsthat female family members will care for the sick
- Social policies help to reinforce patriarchy and do this through:
- Donzelot’s view
- Policy is controlling and is surveillance of the family
- Donzelot outlines the agents of control which seem to have a positive effect but are really controlling family diversity
- Healthcare workers, doctors, social workers etc use their knowledge and turn families into ‘cases’ increasing surveillance
- Important policies influencing the family
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975 protected workers on the characteristics of sex and marital status
- The Divorce Reform Act 1969 changed the divorce process and allowed women to file for divorce for any reason. It also became cheaper and easier to divorce
- 1984 - divorce was allowed after one year, changing this from the previous 5 year rule
- The Equal Pay Act 1970 meant that men and women were paid the same for the same job and it was now illegal to underpay women
- The Civil Partnerships Act 2004 allowed same-sex couples to have their relationship legally recognised and meant that they had similar rights to married heterosexual couple s
- The Marriage Act of 2013 allowed same-sex couples to be married and have identical rights
- The Employment Protection Act 1975 meant that pregnant women could not be fired from their job on this basis
- The Child Benefit Act and its subsequent changes gave money to parents depending on their circumstances and the number of children
- Those with a household income over £60k do not get CB
- Income Support for Lone Parent families has been changed in recent years and gives a small benefit if you are pregnant/ mother, do not work full time and have low/no income
- The Adoption Act 2002 changed the law on adoption and allowed unmarried (including same-sex) couples to adopt with the same rights as married couples
- functionalist view
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