Social Policy: Troubled Families

Question 1

what does Charles Murray say the causes of family breakdown are?

Answer 1

• Dissolution
• Dysfunction
• Dadlessness

Question 2

term: dissolution

Answer 2

divorce too easy to obtain

Question 3

term: dysfunction

Answer 3

parents not taking responsibility for the behaviours of children

Question 4

term: dadlessness

Answer 4

too many fathers loosing contact with children

Question 5

what factors could lead to family being identified by Troubled Families Programme?

Answer 5

• involved in crime/ antisocial behaviour
• children persistently don’t go school
• adults unemployed long term
• high cost to public purse- what they claim

Question 6

how did historians criticse the Troubled Families Programme?

Answer 6

presents misleading and inaccurate picture of British past filled with ‘happy untroubled families’
Evidence suggests every gen over last 200 years expressed concerns about troubled families

Question 7

What’s wrong with the Troubled Families Programme?

Answer 7

99% of families “turned around”
if shows slight change= considered success
progress measure is subjective