the new right Flashcards
1
Q
redwood said in 1993…
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“the natural sate should be two adults caring for their children”
2
Q
redwoods concern is…
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- the growth of lone parent families
- increasing divorce
- increasing cohabitation
3
Q
evidence for lone parent families
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“lone parent families are more than twice as likley to live in poverty as two parent families”
4
Q
evidence for increase in divorce
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“42% of marriages end in divorce”
5
Q
critiques: feminists
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- tradditional gender roles are oprresive to women
- divorce being easier is good beacuse without it women would be trapped in unhappy marriages
6
Q
critiques: chester
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- the new right exaggerate the ectend of cohabiting and signle parent families most live in nuclear families
7
Q
the nuclear family is decling because state policy has…
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- encouraged women to leave families by promoting equal rights
- underminded marriage by making divorce easier
