Lone Parent Families
- Created by: alicegrieve
- Created on: 27-02-18 09:15
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- LONE PARENT FAMILIES
- GROWTH
- tripled since 1971
- UK has one of the highest percentages of lone-parent families in Europe
- in 2014 1 in 4 families with dependant children were lone-parent of which 9 in 10 were headed by women
- WHY AN INCREASE?
- greater economic independence of women - more job opportunities, support from welfare state
- marriage & support from husband is less of an economic necessity
- improved contraception - changing male attitudes, fewer shotgun weddings
- wider availability & approval of safe & effective contraception, easier access to safe & legal abortions, men may feel less responsibility to marry if they become unintentionally pregnant
- changing social attitudes. less social stigma attached to it, women not afraid of consequences
- reproductive technology. can bear children without male partner - IVF, surrogate
- greater economic independence of women - more job opportunities, support from welfare state
- NEW RIGHT
- Blame the generosity of welfare state
- HURRAY argues that generous welfare benefits encourage women to have children they couldn't otherwise afford
- rising crime is due to a lack of nuclear family
- POLICIES TO CUT WELFARE COSTS
- Child support agency = encourages absent fathers to take financial responsibility
- Childcare tax credit = helps with cost of childcare
- increase to minimum wage
- MYTHS OF LONE PARENT FAMILIES
- absent fathers - can be argued fathers do help & get involved when mother is alone raising the child, however, statistics fail to consider this
- problems with children arisen in lone-parent - just as likely to occur in two-parent familes
- the home office - no difference between the crime rates of youngsters from lone-parent families & those from 2 parent families
- in 2011 the average age of a lone parent was 38
- GROWTH
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