3F (New Right Theory) Case Studies

Question 1

Underclass

Single mothers are a problem

‘New Victorian’ Values

Answer 1

Charles Murray

Question 2

Increased numbers of children being raised by single mothers - poorer health and lower educational attainment compared to nuclear families.

Boys won’t have ‘expectation of responsibility’ for a wife and children in future resulting in immature, anti-social and irresponsible young men.

Answer 2

Dennis and Erdos in Families without Fatherhood

Question 3

New Right Theory on Family:
Assumes all women are happy to be homemakers.
Assumes all families are ‘happy units’.
Ignore issue of domestic abuse

Answer 3

Abbott and Wallace (1992)