Social policy influence on family life
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- Social Policy influence on Family life
- the government can have a direct influence on the way that family is structured
- they can control the finances and the resources available to the family
- they can have laws that prohibit certain things within a family
- UK state policies have not been as extreme as some other countries, but they do impact family life and stucture
- China's One Child Policy
- government population control policy aimed to discourage couples from having more than one child
- China's One Child Policy
- Romania's Childless Tax
- Restricted contraception and abortion, set up fertility treatment centre, made divorce more difficult, lowered legal age of marriage to 15, made unmarried adults and childless couples pay an extra 5% income tax
- UK state policies have not been as extreme as some other countries, but they do impact family life and stucture
- China's One Child Policy
- government population control policy aimed to discourage couples from having more than one child
- China's One Child Policy
- Conservative Family Policies
- Marriage Tax Allowance, 1990
- Encouraged traditional family values of men going to work and women staying at home. Go back to Nuclear family
- Child Support Act, 1991
- Reduce lone parent families and stop single mums getting benefits. support for New Right Views
- White Paper on Adoption, 1993
- Encourage traditional structure of male and female parents. go back to the nuclear family
- Marriage Tax Allowance, 1990
- Evaluation of Conservative Policies
- Feminists argue that the NR view is an attempt to justify a return to the patriarchal nuclear family
- NR view wrongly assumes that the patriarchal family is natural rather than socially constructed
- Pan Abbott & Claire Wallace
- cutting beenefits would simply drive many poor households into even greater poverty and make them even less self reliant and more reliant on the state
- inconsistent with family policy
- 2013 gay marriage was legalised. this distinctively underminds NR ideas on traditional heterosexual nuclear families
- Back to Basics Campaign
- floundered after a number o embarrassing revelations about the personal lives of several conservative MPs came to light
- suggested that their NR influenced policies were idealistic and unrealistic
- floundered after a number o embarrassing revelations about the personal lives of several conservative MPs came to light
- New Labour Family Policies
- Sure Start
- Interaction wwith other parents. encouraged parents to help children develop so they can give them a good start in life. helping parents get back into employment
- Free Early Years Provision
- Giving all children a good start in life regardless of background. encouraging people to work so they can support their family
- Working Tax Credit
- Helping families to getback into employment so they don't have to claim benefits
- Sure Start
- Evaluation of New Labour policies
- Shift to the Right (Blue Labour)
- criticised for an apparent shift away from traditional left wing values of liberalism, fairness and opportunity for all, towards the NR influenced Right Wing seeing the married working family as hr bedrock of society
- Barlow et.al.
- For New Labour there is a strong duty on paid work for supporting children, which is more easily organised between 2 parents as opposed to lone parent families
- There was an attempt to steer a course between supporting marriage and the nucear family and providing help for other forms of family. Labour as careful not to condemn alternatives to the nuclear family
- Shift to the Right (Blue Labour)
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