Family Policies Flashcards
Chinas one child policy
- aimed to discourage couples from having more than one child- control population
- women must seek permission to have a baby
- couples who comply with policy get benefits such as free child healthcare
- people who go against must pay fine
Communist romania
Series of policies to try and drive up birth rates which have been falling as living standards declined
-restricted contraception, Abortions and lowered legal age of marriage to 15
Functionalist - policies
See policies as helping families perform to their function more effectively making life better for members
New labour governments
- longer maternity leave , unpaid leave for both parents
- working family tax credits enabling parents to claim some tax relief on childcare costs
Conservative led government from 2010
The conservatives have long been divided between what Richard Hatton calls
Moderniser-recognises that families are now more diverse
Traditionalists - favour the new right view and reject diversity as morally wrong
Lone parents welfare policy
Provides council housing for unmarried teenage mothers& cash payments to support lone parent families.
New right Charles Murray - critical of parent welfare policy
Believe it encourages dysfunctional family types that harm society
- argues welfare benefits offer other incentives
- if fathers see that the satiate will provide for their children many will abandon their responsibilities to their family
New right policy
1988 changes to taxation law- cohabitating couples couldn’t claim more tax allowance than a married couple.
New right policy 2
Child support agency- intention was to force dads to take financial responsibility for their kids
Aries
Claimed that in pre industrial society, the type of childhood that exists in mordern society today simply did not exist- argued that as soon as kids weren’t dependant on their parents around the age of 7 kids were treated like adults childhood didn’t exist after this age- worked in factories- no ed
