Social policies and families

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what years was the conservative government active and what was there aspect?
1979-1997
very traditional perspective, women can't work, nuclear family, etc
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what year did Margaret thatcher come into the conservative government and was acts did she introduce?
1988
the children's act 1989- rights for children, the child support agency 1993- ensure absent father and paid for child, married mens tac allowance- higher tax allowed for married men, tried to make divorces harder but was stopped.
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what is section 28?
stopped promoting homosexuality in schools or local areas as it was not accepted
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what is back to basics and who introduced it?
name an evaluation of this
Major
trying to bring back nuclear families/ values
-many politicians were caught for doing hypocritical things such as cheating on partners ,etc
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name evaluations of this
-marxists argued that this just helped mc as stuff like support agency cut state spending/ taxes for rich
-society heading towards moral path so these policies failed to work
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what government came next, what years were they active and who was in charge?
New labour government, 1997-2010, Tony Blair
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what policies did they introduce:
cuts to lone parents benefits- try wanted more mothers to work in return for childcare, working family tax- tax allowance for childcare if parents are married or not, paid paternity leave, civil partnership act- same sex legal, got rid of section 28, equa
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name an evaluation fo this
-although this was more realistic they still believed in the nuclear model
+improved gay rights
-encouraging women to work was just to cut state costs
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what years was the coalition government active from and who was in charge?
2010-2015
David Cameron
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what policies did they introduce?
removed couples penalty- couples can't break up for benefits, shared parental leave, equal marriage- same sex marriage.
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name evaluations of this
-civil partnerships should make and form of marriage legal
-only 2% parents use the shared parental leave
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what is the next 'gov' or 'group' and what have they brought in?
Social policy today
married couples tax allowance- only one partner has to pay tax (any partner can pay the tax), child tax credits restricted to two children- stopping low income families having too many children.
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the children's act 1989- rights for children, the child support agency 1993- ensure absent father and paid for child, married mens tac allowance- higher tax allowed for married men, tried to make divorces harder but was stopped.

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