New Right Views on Family

Question 1

What is the only correct type of family and why?

Answer 1

Nuclear

It is the cornerstone of society and is a place of refuge based on natural biological differences between the sexes

Question 2

Issues with lone parent families

Answer 2

Lone mothers cannot discipline children properly

Leave boys without an adult role model resulting in academic failure and social instability

Poorer so they are a larger burden on the tax payer

Question 3

Benson’s study of 15 000 babies

Answer 3

During the first 3 years of their lives, rate of family breakdown is much higher in cohabiting families vs married couples

Cohabiting: 20%
Married: 6%

Question 4

Why is marriage more stable?

Answer 4

Benson- couoles make a deliberate commitment to each other but cohabitation allows couples to avoid commitment

Question 5

New right’s criticisms of laws and policies allowing easy access to divorce

Answer 5

Undermines the conventional family

Question 6

What must the gov do to fix the issue of cohabitation?

Answer 6

Encourage couples to marry through policies

Question 7

Feminist criticism of the new right

Answer 7

The nuclear family is the fundamental cause of womens oppression because it keeps women dinancially dependent

Question 8

Chester: neo conventional family

Answer 8

A dual earner family in which both spouses go and work