Sociology Family Social Policies
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- Created on: 12-03-16 09:42
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- Social Policies
- Right Wing - The nuclear family is ideal and other family structures are inadequate they believe that the education system should play a limited role in families.
- Conservative (New Right)
- Policies stressed the importance of the nuclear family
- The right to but council house schemes were brought in meaning these were more privately owned
- House prices were rises making it hard for poorer people to buy houses.
- CHILD SUPPORT - set up to make fathers pay maintenance for their children discouraging children outside of marriage
- CHILDCARE - fails to introduce affordable childcare assuming woman would stay at home
- MARRIED PERSON ALLOWANCE - married tax benefits and welfare benefits to those who were married
- ELDERLY CARE - privatised meaning poorer families woman has to stay at home.
- Left Wing - alternative family structures is equally successful and the state should play a large role in the family.
- New Labour 1997 - 2010
- More generous maternity pay and leave plus paternity leave.
- Free child care for 2 and 2.5 year olds.
- Flexible working arrangements
- Help for lone parents to get into work
- Help for elderly with winter fuel payments
- Adoption act which allows same sex adoption
- Coalition Government 2010-2015
- Marriage Tax allowance
- Legal aid budget
- Child benefit means tested
- Universal credit introduced instead of various benefits
- Troubled families programme
- Main Policies
- 1967 - Abortion act
- 1969 - Divorce reform act
- 1976 - domestic violence act
- 1993 - child support act
- 1994 - Marital **** out loured
- 2004 - Adoption and child act
- 2003 - employment act introduced
- 2005 - Civil Partnership act
- 2014 - Gay marriage act
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