social policies

Question 1

Example of direct impacts to families

Answer 1

Divorce reform act
Availability of contraception
Same sex marriage

Question 2

Indirect impacts to families

Answer 2

NHS - Paid professional roles for women as it used to be nursing and midwifery which was voluntary
Equal Pay Act 1970 - Women can be more instrumental
Benefits - increased single parent families

Question 3

Aim of One child policy 1979-2015

Answer 3

Discourage couples from having more than one child to tackle overpopulation

Question 4

Negatives of new right perspective

Answer 4

Ignores darkside of the famiy
Cutting benefits means more people would go into poverty not less
Women in the UK more likely to get pregnant over the age of 40 than under 20s therefore teenage mums are a folk devil that society blame

Question 5

Familistic Gender regimes

Answer 5

Policies based on traditional division of labour
e.g limited maternity leave for women

Question 6

Individualistic gender regimes

Answer 6

Policies based on equality between the sexes
e.g state funded childcare

Question 7

AO2 f.g.r

Answer 7

UK -
33% income for childcare
40% tax
39 week maternity leave
10 days unpaid paternity leave
£172 per week

Question 8

AO2 i.g.r

Answer 8

Sweden -
Earn more than double than UK for maternity leave
68 week mat/pat leave
Childcare costs 4% income

Question 9

2 criticisms of troubled families programme

Answer 9

Not sustainable as due to austerity measures they had a financial crash in 2008
Marxism would disagree on the policy due poverty being structural problem and people don’t choose to be unemployed