New Right views on Social Policy
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- Created on: 06-02-16 17:15
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- New Right views on Social Policy
- New right takes a negative view on many social policies as they see them as undermining the traditional nuclear family.
- They think that single parent families should be discouraged and the nuclear family encouraged.
- One way to this is to reduce or eliminate the benefits given to single parents
- whilst making the nuclear family and marriage more financially attractive.
- VIEWS
- One way to this is to reduce or eliminate the benefits given to single parents
- They think that single parent families should be discouraged and the nuclear family encouraged.
- Critical of welfare benefits given to single parent families.
- Believe that it is encouraging young women to get pregnant because they know the state will look after them and their child.
- They are critical of divorce and think that it is a quick way out instead of fighting for their marriage.
- They exaggerate the decline of the Nuclear family.
- Most adults still marry and have children
- Most children are reared by their two natural parents.
- CRITICISMS
- Most marriages continue until death
- Divorce has increased, but most divorcees remarry.
- Feminism – gender roles are socially determined rather than being fixed by biology. Traditional gender roles are oppressive to women.
- Feminism – divorce being easier is good because without it many women end up being trapped in unhappy or abusive relationships.
- Chester (see later!) argues that the New Right exaggerate the extent of cohabiting and single parent families – most children still spend most of their lives in a nuclear family arrangement
- New right takes a negative view on many social policies as they see them as undermining the traditional nuclear family.
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