family, morality and state policy

Traditional nuclear family is under threat because of conctraception, sex education, working mothers, divorce, lone parents etc.

Tax and Welfare policies aimed at heterosexual married couples have discouraged cohabited and one-parent families

Familial ideology is patriarchal; benefits men as 'real woman' leave their job to bring up children.

Gender role socialization - girls are taught from an early age that motherhood is the ultimate goal 

Familial ideology is antisocial as it promotes nuclear family and dismisses other family structures; one-parent families are seen as cause of social problems