New Right Perspective!

Question 1

New Right: Overview

Answer 1

NR supports traditional values and institutions

• They see the family and Kinship network as performing important and beneficial functions in securing social stability
• providing emotional support and security to children
• socialise then into culture of society - establishing respect and conformity to social values and norms.
• Favour monogmous nuclear family - traditional hetresexual nuclear family - natural parents and traditional roles - best way of bringing up children and so they should be the dominant nuclear family!

Question 2

New Right

There view on family types!

Answer 2

They say:

• Traditional Nucelar Family is under threat/ due to social changes - such as the divorce rate, cohabitation, lone parent, alternative types)
• they depend on welfare benefits!
• leads to
  Anti social behaviour
  Lack of disipline
  Educational underachievement
  Alcohol and Drug abuse
  Crime
  Dependency on welfare benefits

This is because :
Women put their careers first before children
Lack of successful make role model - unable to discipline!

Question 3

New Right: Murray and Marsland (1990)

Answer 3

Welfare benefits has undermined personal responsibility and self help and the importance to support family’s.

Lone parent encourages women as they know they can be dependent on welfare state
Dependency culture: work shy

New Right day welfare benefits need to be reversed - reducing divorce, birth outside marriage

Question 4

New Right : what to do?

Answer 4

• welfare benefits needs to be reversed.
• reduce divorce and births outside of family
• believe the family should be stable with married mother and father

New Right encouraged - “back to basics campaign in 1993 to encourage a return to traditional family values - however this was criticised for being unsuccessful

Question 5

EVIDENCE: why lone parent hood is not good

Answer 5

• children from broken homes are almost five times more likely to develop emotional problems
• children from broken homes are nine times more likely to become young offenders

Question 6

CRITISISMS: exaggeration!

Answer 6

Exaggeration

Nuclear family still dominant family - 12.5 m families are (nuclear) out of 18.6
Official statistics 2014

Question 7

CRITICISM: Feminists

Answer 7

Oppression of women in families, divorce allows women to escape this - radical feminists/ men benefit in family whereas women better of to stay clear from it -

Contemporary families ; Edgell 1980: women are involved in the not so important desisions and less likely to have the final say- power is from the male

Darker side or family: families can be hostile and dangerous - growing privataization - emotional stress : upset
Which can lead to psychological damage in children, illness and crime!
Violice - patricahal power - creates more problems … better of away ?