social policy impact on family life

Question 1

What is the new right perspective on social policy on family life?

Answer 1

• it undermines the nuclear family by undermining self reliance, encouraging lone parenthood and dependency on the state

Question 2

What does the new right think child benefit and income support for single parents does?

Answer 2

• creates a ‘dependency culture’ by encouraging women to raise children without a male breadwinner

Question 3

What does the new right think housing benefits do ?

Answer 3

• allows lone-parents to move out of the parental home, thus reducing the influence of family support and discipline

Question 4

What does the new right think sure start (1998-2010) does?

aimed at supporting disadvantaged families

Answer 4

• belive it replaced parental responsibility with state intervention

Question 5

What does the new right think the impacts of social policies are?

Answer 5

• weaken marriage, reduce father involvement and increase crime and responsibility

Question 6

what is the overall criticism of this new right view on social policy?

Answer 6

• it iignores economic hardship and stigmatises lone parents, especially mothers.
• not all policy is anti-family; e.g marriage tax allowance (reintroduced in 2015) aligns with new right ideals

Question 7

what is the feminist view on social policy?

Answer 7

• argue they often reproduce gender nequalities, although different strands disagree on how

Question 8

what do liberal feminists think about shared parental leave (2015)?

Answer 8

-success, allows both parents to share 50 weeks of leave- but uptake by fathers is low

Question 9

what do liberal feminists think about 30 hours of free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds (2017)?

Answer 9

despite attemptsto support mothers, hours are limited and often dont cover a full working week, reinforcing the idea that women should work part-time