The New Right and the Family
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- New Right & the Family
- Marsland & Murray
- Believe the welfare state
- Undermines the self-reliance of the family unit
- Encourages the rise of lone parent familes
- Has created an underclass consisting of lone parent underage families that have an anti-work ethic and peverse incentives like benefits and council houses
- Believe the welfare state
- Believe that the TNF is an important institution because of its functions and that it should be the dominant family structure
- Providing emotional support for children and instiling moral values into them
- It is a self-reliant unit because the father provides for their economic needs while the mother looks after the house and children
- Want social policy to
- Promote the return of the TNF
- Reduce births outside marriage
- Give benefits to conventional families
- Reduce welfare support for non-conventional families
- Weaknesses
- Ignores the dark side of the family that women face like domestic abuse and marital ****
- Feminists are critical of their attak on lone parent female families and believe it id an attempt to force women back into the oppressive patriarchal institution of marriage
- Marsland & Murray
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