The New Right and the Family
- Created by: bex77
- Created on: 04-02-21 13:33
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- New Right Perspective on the Family
- Important in securing social stability
- Providing emotional security for children
- Socialization and respect for social and moral values and norms
- Traditional gender roles
- Traditional family is under threat from modern changes
- Rising divorce rate
- Step families
- Lone parents
- Cohabitation
- Births outside marriage
- Gay marriage
- These cause a lack of discipline and antisocial behaviour
- Decline in traditional family and rise in lone parent families contributes to the emergence of a dependency culture
- Dependency culture- a set of values and beliefs and a way of life centred on dependence on others, particularly benefits from the welfare state
- The government could reverse the decline of the traditional family by reducing divorce and births outside marriage and the reduction of welfare state benefits to non-conventional family units
- Important in securing social stability
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