Families and Households - New right & Neoliberalism

Question 1

• alignment with conservative party and traditional family and marriage views
• free market capitalism, private enterprise should generate wealth, competition
• nuclear families as the cornerstone of stability in society, favour tradition for 3 reasons:
  1. encourage self reliance within families
  2. reduces state expenditure on welfare e.g lone parents
  3. traditional families are the best way to pass down morality to children

Answer 1

New Right and Neoliberalism government

Question 2

A03 of New Right and Neoliberalism policies - Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace

Answer 2

Thatcher’s polices allowed and encouraged people to live outside of traditional nuclear family e.g divorce made relatively easy, welfare payments easier for mothers to be single parents

Policies main emphasis was on saving money

Question 3

A03 of the declining nuclear family - Patricia Morgan

Answer 3

strong evidence since 1970’s, e.g Offfice for National Statistics 2015 shows increase in family diversity