Social Policy Studies

Question 1

Fox and Harding

Answer 1

Social housing should prioritise children but single parents are discriminated against

Question 2

Alan

Answer 2

State schooling with long summer holiday assumes conjugal roles

Question 3

Brown and Elming

Answer 3

Coalition government cut benefits for lone parents

Question 4

McKenzie

Answer 4

Working class mothers felt stigmatised and policed at SureStart nurseries

Question 5

Barlow et al

Answer 5

New labour policies favoured married nuclear families

Question 6

Adam and Brewer

Answer 6

David Cameron’s policies only gave couples a benefit of 0.2%

Question 7

Murray

Answer 7

Welfare state provides perverse incentives

Fathers leave families bc state will look after them

Young girls get pregnant expecting a council house

Question 8

Morgan

Answer 8

State policies should encourage marriage bc cohabitation is unstable, fragmentary and abusive

Question 9

Neale

Answer 9

Nuclear family should be encouraged - represents community, commitment, morality

Question 10

Fitzpatrick

Answer 10

New Right have no evidence about ‘underclass’

Question 11

Henrickson

Answer 11

Social liberalism should be at the heart of state policies for greater equality

Reducing poverty more important than imposing a family structure

Question 12

Barrett and McIntosh

Answer 12

Family ideology = patriarchal, harmful, anti-social

Triple shift, ignorant of abuse, devalues life outside of family