Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Single parents
- Secularisation
- Giddens
- Introduction of welfare state, young
single mums claim welfare. Costing tax
payers a lot. (ONLY 2% are teens though!)
- Social attitudes
- New Right
- Unnatural and harmful
Causes poverty and crime.
- Emancipation of women
- Wright
- Positive role-models.
Encourages financial
independence
- Key info
- Of all households in 1961, 2% were
SP's. In 2005 it was 7%. In 2013 it
was 25%.
- Higher rates in African-Caribbean
communities. There's also higher poverty
rates.