marxist theories of family?

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engels?
argued that the family developed so that men could be certain of the patriarchy of children with marriage allowing them to control women sexuality. this enabled them to be more confident that they were passing down there property to there offspring.
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zaretsky?
prop to the capitalist system. the unpaid domestic labour of housewives sports future generations of workers at no cost to capitalist employers. the family consumes the commodities produced nu capitalists companies helping the bourgeoisie ->profit
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Poulantzas?
sees the family as part of the superstructure of society. he describes it as part of the ideological state apparatus which is controlled by the bourgeoises and used to create values attitudes and believes which support the capitalist system.
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david cooper who supported poulantzas?
sees the family as an ideological conditioning device in which children learn to conform to authority so they will become cooperative and easily exploited workers.
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criticisms of marxism?
zaretsky has been criticised for exaggerating the extent of the family escaping from alienating work since the family can be characterised by cruelty neglect and violence.
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