NEW RIGHT

lone parent families- UNNNATRUAL AND HARMFUL, especially children:

• burdern on welfare state
• lone parent mothers cant disciple
• leave boys without an adukt role body = higher rates of deliquenct, threatening socila stability

EVIDENCE: BENSON, data on parents of over 15,000 babies born 200-1

• nearly 3,000 mothers lone parent during 1st 3 years of baby life
• rate of fam breakdown much lower amongst married couple
• 6% married, 20% chohabitating, 74% vlosely involved

FAMILY BREAKDOWN INCREASES HARM TO CHIILDREN

• Amato- children in these families, more liekely to live in peverty, and educational failure,
• experience crime health problems and in futyre fam breakdown when afults

Conservatiove and NR=evidence that fam and society at large are BROKEN, return to 'traditional values (e.g.marriage) NECESSARY TO PREVENT SOCIAL DISTRUPION, harm to children

NOT MARRIAGE - PROVIDES PROTECTION AGAINST FAMILY BREAKDOWN, BUT DEGREE OF COMMITMENT, more commited-more likely to marry, more likely to stay together afterwards

ANN OAKLEY  - 'husband + wife role fixed by biology' WRONG

• cross cultural studies= social construct, GREAT BARIATION in the roled men and women perform within the fam
• (F) traditional nuclear fan- based on patricarchal oppression of women, FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF GENDER EQUALITY
• stop women from working, keep dependent on men, denies equal say in decision making

NR: oppose recent trends in family life, political and economicl grounds

• conservatuves hate tax & government spending
• family breakdown and increase in lone parent fam = increase spending welfare benifits
• paid out of public funds= bigger tax burden on working population
• high levels of tax incentive= PERVERSE NCENTIVES, punish responsibel, reward responsible, undermine traditional fam, X men work, encourage dependency culture, living off benifits

LITTLE/NO EVIDENCE THAT LONE PARENT FAM PART OF DEPENDENCY CULTURE/ CHILDREN IN LONE PARENT INCREASE LIKELHOOD OF DELIINQUENCT THAT THOSE IN 2 PARENT HOUSEHOLD OF SAME SOCIAL CLASS

N.R: LOVE CUTTING/ABOLISHING WELFARE BENIFITS,

• reduce deoendency culture
• encourage convential family

• conservative, anti feminist perspective on fam, firmly oppsed to family diversity, like functionalists ONLY ONE CORRECT FAM TYPE- nuclear with marriage
• clear dicisions of labout
• family CORNERSTONE OF SOCIETY, =REFUGE, HARMONY
• decine of nuclear fam and increase diversity=social distruption leadsing to higher crime rates and educational failure