new right view of the family

Question 1

what do NR think about lone-parent families

Answer 1

they’re unnatural and damage society as they cant discipline children which leads to drug and alcohol abuse, theyre a burden on the welfare state, they leave boys lacking a male role model so they under-achieve, have higher crime rates and unemployed

Question 2

what does Amato suggest

Answer 2

children from lone parent families suffer greater risk of poverty, health problems and educational failure

Question 3

perverse incentives meaning

Answer 3

higher taxation due to lone-parent families being a burden on welfare state that working population have to pay towards

Question 4

evaluations of NR

Answer 4

• feminist Ann Oakley argues they wrongfully assume roles of wives and husbands are natural and fixed by biology when research suggests different
• feminists argue nuclear family is based on a patriarchal opppression of women = gender inequalities which keeps women in a subordinate position under men
• little evidence that lone parents are part of dependancy culture
• little evidence children from lone parent families are more likely to be delinquent