Social Policies

Question 1

Chinas one child policy

Answer 1

Aimed to reduce growing population

Couples who comply get benefits and those that don’t get punished

Question 2

Communist Romania

Answer 2

Tried to drive up the birth rate, it restricted contraception and abortion, made divorce harder and made unmarried couples and childless couples pay 5% more tax.

Question 3

Nazi family policy

Answer 3

Compulsorily sterilised 375,000 disabled people that it deemed unfit to breed.

Question 4

Donzelot

Answer 4

Policing of families

Professionals survellience the family through doctors, social care and health workers.

Question 5

Fletcher

Answer 5

Policies help people perform their functions as a family. e.g. NHS helps family take care of its members