The New Right - Families and Households

Question 1

Murray

Answer 1

Increasing levels of single parenthood and teenage pregnancies. Murray argues that this creates an ‘underclass’. According to Murray, there is a group of individuals in a society considered the underclass created by single parenthood.

One of the leading New Right thinkers
Children growing up without role models
Welfare state reinforces perverse ideologies

Question 2

The New Right Perspective of Families and Households

Answer 2

See traditional marriage and family life as breaking down
Call for a return to traditional values
Some New Right thinkers have attacked the government’s decision to legalise same-sex marriage

Accused of looking back to a golden age of family life
Make value judgments about different types of families