New Right Flashcards
What type of family do the NR prefer?
Why? (4)
TNF, = vital that it remains dominant
- Performs important, beneficial functions
- Secures social stability
- Socialises children into correct Vs + gender roles
- Creates conformist adults
Why are the NR anti-feminist?
Believe W’s liberation from housewife role has contributed to moral breakdown of the family + S
How do the NR see S? (2)
- Over regulated - individuals must be responsible for themselves, public sectors (NHS) need to become privatised IOT drive up standards
- Breaking down - lack of traditional values
Why do the NR believe that the TNF is under threat?
From social changes (feminism) :
- Rising divorce rate, step families, lone parent families
- Births outside of marriage
- Gay marriage
- WELFARE STATE POLICIES
What do Murray and Mursland argue?
Growth of SPFs = dysfunctional
Result of over-generous welfare state (benefits for unmarried mothers)
Creates dependency culture + underclass, assume state will support them
Creates perverse incentive - reward irresponsible beh.
Welfare benefits must be abolished to prevent moral decay
Why doe Murray + Mursland argue that benefits create a perverse incentive?
Rewards irresponsible behaviour
e.g. having children without being able to afford them
What do Murray +Mursland see as the solution to stopping the breakdown of the TNF?
ABOLISH WELFARE BENEFITS
Reduce dependency culture that encourages births outside of marriage
Prevents further moral decay
What did Dennie + Erdos conduct research into?
SPFs during 1980s
When did Dennis + Erodos write?
1992
What did Dennis + Erdos argue?
Increase in SPFs = led to a decline in father role
90% SPFs = headed by women
Bad for S; men = discouraged for taking responsibility for their children
Boys = affected by lack of a +ve male role model in the socialisation process
SPFs produce irresponsible, undisciplined boys/ men
What do Dennis + Erdos see as the solution to increasing the number of TNFs?
G introducing policies that gives incentives to TNFs + discourages SPFs
What % of SPFs are headed by some?
90%
How would conflict theories criticise the NR?
Welfare benefits = inadequate + trap families into poverty/ dependency
Children from SPFs have poorer life chance; poverty, not SPFs being ‘inherently bad’
How would feminists criticise the NR?
NR reflects patriarchal ideology
Are fathers always beneficial? (dark side of the family)
What are 2 general criticisms of the NR?
- Lack of affordable child care prevents lone parents from working (60% unemployed)
- SPF status = temporary, 75% divorces remarry
