Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The New Right
approach to
family
- Conservative and anti-feminist perseptive
- Patriarchal Nuclear
family serves society
- Homemaker-wife
- Breadwinner-husband
- Biological
differences (like
Parsons)
- Marriage = stability
- Family diversity and
decline in NF led to
social problems
- Teen pregnancy
- Only makes up
2% of lone-parent
families
- Failed education
- High crime rates
- Poverty
- Future family
breakdown
more likely
- Lone-parent families
- Unnatural
and
harmful
to
chidlren
- Lack role model
- Inadequate
socialisation
- Burden on welfare state
- Depends on child's age - if
child is 12 above, lone mother
earns similar or higher wage to
average earner
- Disapprove of
working mothers
- Cohabitation &
divorce = instability
- Criticism
- Level of
commitment, not
marriage, creates
stability
- Assumed all NF's
are good, and all
lone parents are
bad
- Doesn't explain
social issues
derived from NF
- Cultural differences in
gender roles argues
against biological
differences
- Feminists: instills partriachy
- Little/no evidence that lone-parents
are part of a 'dependency culture'
- Welfare state needed because of lone parents
- High taxation creates 'perverse
incentive' - punish responsible
behaviour and reward
irresponsible
- Encourages
dependenyc
culture