Social policy 7
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- Created on: 20-02-23 15:39
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- Social Policy
- Familial ideology
- suggest that the family is: natural, normal, opposite sex parents, care for children, nuclear family is best and single-parent families are a crisis of society
- New Right Policies
- Strengthen the traditional family in the following ways
- Marriage couples allowance = tax relief to encourage marriage rather than co-habiting couples
- New Labour policies
- Wanted to promote the nuclear family and discourage lone-parent families BUT recognised that the family was changing
- Flexible working patterns
- State V Market
- Most countries are becoming more equal in gender but there is no inevitable march of progress towards gender equality
- Neo-Liberal Policies have encouraged people to use the market rather than state
- Care in Community policies encouraged families to take responsibility of the elderly, disabled or sick in their own home.
- Created dual earner families or the woman to stay home to care for them.
- Care in Community policies encouraged families to take responsibility of the elderly, disabled or sick in their own home.
- Shared parental leave 2015 - can share up to 50 weeks
- Civil Partnership act 2003 - enables same-sex couples to get married
- Parental advice and relationship guidance 2010
- Equality act 2010 - prevented discrimination of women in the workplace
- Donzelot - sees social policies as a form of state power over families. CCTV is a way to observe and monitor families. He argues health visitors/ doctors use their knowledge to change families (known as 'policing of families')
- Cross-Cultural social policies = 1.China's one child policy 2. Romania's enforced Baby Boom
- Familial ideology
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