New right Flashcards
What are the new rights view?
Strongly in favour of the conventional or traditional nuclear family, heterosexual couple, division of labour, self reliant and capable of caring and providing for itself
What’s threatening the conventional family?
Increase in divorce, cohabitation, same sex relationship, lone parent hood
What did Almond argue?
Laws making divorce easier undermine the idea that marriage is life long
Civil partnerships sends out the mssage that the state no longer see heterosexual marraiage as superior
Tax laws discriminate against conventional families with a sole breadwinner, they cannot transfer non working partners tax allowances to other partner, so pay more tax than dual earners
What makes cohabitation and marriage similar?
Adoption rights, succession to council house tenancies and pension rights when a partner dies, shows that marriage is less special
What does Murray argue?
providing an overgenerous welfare benefits undermines the conventional nuclear family and encourages deviant behaviour
What are the examples of the perverse incentive?
Role models, council housing for unmarried teens encourages pregnancy
Fathers will abandone their responsibities
What two functions does a dependency culture threaten?
Socialisation and maintenance of work ethic among men
Criticisms?
Feminists- attempt to justify a return to patriarchy that subordinated women to men
Wrongly assumes tat patriarchal nuclear family is natural not socially constructed
Aboot and Wallace - cutting benefits drive poor families into greater poverty
Ignore that they benefit nuclear family
Whats the solution
Policy must be changed, cuts in welfare sending and tighter restrictions on who is eligible for benefits
Taxes could be reduced giving fathers incentive to work, denying council houses reduces teen pregnancy
Make absent fathers financially responsible
