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New Right View; what do they believe, like, and who criticises them?
Social Policies create dependency culture and undermines traditional nuc. fam.
Charles Murray, 1984 → Policies reward anti-social behaviour
Likes; Children Act, 1989 + Child Support Agency, 1993
Criticisms: feminists → NR view justifies patriarchal family and assumes it's natural.
Dependency culture.
M, 1984 → anti social behaviour
2 childrens social policies
Feminists → anti-patriarchy
Policing Of Families
Donzelot, 1977 → (Foucault, 1976 → surveillance theory) → policies used to control families.
Use professional knowledge (eg. social workers, health visitors) against family.
Surveillance is inequal; poor = crime/anti social, target of improv.
D, 1977 → F, 1976
Surveillance, unequal, control
Feminist View; who, what, criticisms?
Hilary Land, 1978 → social policies aid the patriarchy, and support the ideal nuclear family.
Likes: legalisation of contraceptive pill, 1967 + abortion legalisation, 1967 + divorce reform act, 1967 + marital rape act, 1991 + child support agency, 1993, civil partnerships act, 2004 + homo. legalisation, 1967
Criticisms: not all policies aid patriarchy
Eileen Drew, 1995 → gender regimes
HL, 1978 → Patriarchy
Any policy that changes the family
ED, 1995 → gender regimes
Marxist View; what do they believe and like?
Policies aid capitalism, and dont help everyone equally.
Likes: any policy that changes the nuc. fam.
Capitalism. Likes the policies feminists like.
Functionalist View; who, what, crit?
Ronald Fletcher, 1966 → social policies support the family in performing its functions. Health, edu & housing policies → developed welfare state
Likes: welfare state, 1942 + children act, 1989 + children support agency, 1993 + additional paternity pay, 2011
Criticisms: assumes all fam. members benefit from social policies, assumes march of prog.
RF, 1966 → support family functions
Likes → what brings family together
Crit → too idealistic
Nazi Family Policy
Germany, 1930
Women out of workforce → confined to domestic duties & church
Master race → blond hair, blue eyes
375,000 disabled people sterilised → "unfit to breed"
375,000
Master race
Women wont work
One Child Policy
China
Women must seek permission before getting pregnant
Couples that break policy are fined
Couples who comply receive extra benefits
China. Literally what it says in title.
Abolishing the family
Soviet Union, 1920 → abortion + divorce easy to obtain, equality of sexes, got rid of patriarchal family.
Civil War + Hitler + Famine → patriarchal family became necessary to industrialise
Abortion made illegal, parents w/ more children given bigger benefits
Russia, 1920
Was equal, but because of 3 factors, patriarchy took over.
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