Families and Households - Social Policy

Question 1

Kizzbutz, Israel

Answer 1

• children raised separately from parents with full time carers
• parents lived close by, visited them daily
• abandoned as conventional family units preferred by most people

Question 2

China’s One Child Policy

Answer 2

• restricted population growth
• led to ageing population and disproportionate number of males
• 1980 to 2016

Question 3

Charles Murray - underclass

Answer 3

underclass created through overly generous welfare payments, creating reliance on state benefits and not a stable income.
especially bad for lone parent families as children likely to mirror parents behaviour.