Assess two ways in which social policies have shaped family life. 10/10

In contemporary society, the nuclear family is considered the ideal family type with instrumental and expressive roles allocated between the father and mother, respectively. Due to government laws and social policies, however, life within the household has changed.

There is an increasing variety of family types due to enacting of certain laws. The Gay Marriage Act in 2014, for example, gave homosexual couples the legal right to wed, recognising them as acceptable alternatives to hetersexual couples. The implementation of this policy demonstrates that there's been a shift in…