Governemnt Policies Creates Family Diversity Flashcards
Introduction to NHS 1949
Improve healthcare/smaller family sizes children live longer – IMF/increase childbearing age/increase life expectancy/increase beanpole families.
A03-New right =Dislike - new family types e.g. lone parent which are matrifocal families depend on welfare system and rely on government to support them/believe there’s only one ideal family type
Sex discrimination act
Rights to traditional male jobs/not being discriminated in workplace – more duties for women/women don’t rely on men don’t need to get married/career focus for women/more women in employment
A03- Feminists like this – women more equal to men/society becoming more liberal and accepting women breaking out of stereotypical role/functionalists say makes women not want to get married and have children thus undermined the nuclear family and threatens social solidarity
Equal pay act
Incentive for women to get better qualifications/more career opportunities/independence/better future in paid work.
A03- Feminists like this helps women/create a quality and increases female opportunities to become successful breadwinners/can move away from domestic work/don’t need to get married to be economically stable
Divorce reform act 1969
Marriage can end on Irretrievably broken down terms/ Neither partner had to prove fault.
Can leave marriage/increase diversity and find new partners and cohabit/decline nuclear families/more liberal and freedom of choice.
A03- Functionalists day Isn’t good for society/doesn’t help maintain social solidarity/children not socialise properly/parents or separate can’t fulfil their roles
2004 civil partnership act/2013 same-sex marriage act
Same-sex couples rights and responsibilities similar to those in a civil marriage.
More same-sex families – civil partners entitled to same property rights,same exemptions On inheritance tax/Social Security/pension benefitss. 8059 couples entered a civil partnership.
A03- New right argue same-sex families can’t socialise children properly not fulfilling right roles/new social policies to liberal creating break of traditions – moral decline/secularisation influence change in policy.
Adoption act 2002
Unmarried couples/gay couples have the right to adopt on the same basis as married couples.
Decline nuclear family/ more same-sex families/more symmetrical families
A03- Post-modernists argue no longer a focus on nuclear family due to social change/decline of traditional gender roles/greater individual freedom
Child benefit act 1975
Encourages more lone parent families.
More support from government/women don’t have to be dependent on men/welfare state support women being independent.
A03 – New right argue people depend on handouts from state – encourage single parenting which in turn leads to deviancy and the decline in morality as children not socialised well by both parents
Tax benefits for married couples 2010
Tax cuts if married/increase in nuclear families/allow women to work less and go down the expressive role as there is more disposable income
Child support agency in 1993
Loan parent families mainly Matrifocal, Men has to give financial support to Childs up bringing/less likely of nuclear family but men and women fulfil their roles not in the same household/women do their roles and go to work
Family planning act 1967
Contraception available to women – contraceptive pill/ Accessible and free foreman/less children = smaller families/able to have career and education before having a child/individualism for females/can have sexual freedom/don’t need to get pregnant and settle down
