New Right And The Family

Question 1

What do the new right believe ? (3 points )

Answer 1

1. Reduced state intervention leads to personal responsibility and traditional values
2. Progressive policies in the 60s and 70s have lead to the decline in traditional values
3. Increase in divorce, lone-parent families and permissive policies has meant the influence of family has declined

Question 2

What do the new right believe about homosexuality ?

Answer 2

An attack on the family

Question 3

What does Charles Murray believe ? (2 points )

Answer 3

1. Murray believes that state spending on benefits has created a form of welfare dependency that has lead to an increase in lone parent families that lack a father figure and formed an underclass that developed their own norms and values that are different to society
2. The underclass developed criminal and antisocial behaviours

Question 4

What polices have the new right created ? (4 policies )

Answer 4

1. Creation of CSA- child support
2. Lowered taxation to enable families to support themselves
3. 2 child policy and the reduction on state benefits
4. Section 28 - schools not allowed to teach homosexuality

Question 5

Evaluations (3 points )

Answer 5

1. Feminists argue that female lone - parent families are being blamed entirely for inequalities on society
2. Lone parents are likely to put families into even further poverty with cuts to state spending
3. New right policies are focused on the economy rather than social aspects of society