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Mind Map by Phoebe Fletcher, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Phoebe Fletcher
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Politics and
the Family
- Laws and social
policies affecting
the family
- 1980s-1990s:
Conservatives
- Social policy aimed to
strengthen Nuclear
families
- Emphasized
self-help through
the reliance on the
family
- Tired to save money by
reducing welfare
benefits
- The Child Support agency was
established in 1993, to ensure that
absent fathers took financial
responsibility for their children
- Social policy aimed to
strengthen Nuclear
families
- 1997-2010:
Labour
- Some New Right policies where
continued, as there was a concern for
'dysfunctional' families and the lack of
male role models, in SPFs
- Social policy showed a
recognition of the
growing diversity of
family forms
- The new polices were made to
support lone parents from
mobbing from the dependence of
welfare back into employment
- The introduction of the
National Minimum
Wage helped the most
poorly paid.
- There was an increase inn free childcare,
and nursery education with all 3-4 year
olds getting a guaranteed 5 half days of
nursery education a week.
- Some New Right policies where
continued, as there was a concern for
'dysfunctional' families and the lack of
male role models, in SPFs
- 1980s-1990s:
Conservatives
- Family ideology
- Feminist and Marxist
writers, suggest that many
state polices are formed
around, a dominant family
ideology
- At the heart of
the ideology is
the 'cereal packet family'
- A nuclear family, which
consists of, two married
parents and their
biological children
- The husband plays an
instrumental role, as the main
breadwinner and decision maker
- The wife plays an expressive, nurturing
role, through caring for the home
(housework) and expressing maternal
love through childcare. She may do some
part-time work to supplement the
household income
- Feminist writers Barrett and McIntosh (1982)
have argued that this stereotype is patriarchal,
harmful, and anti-social
- Patriarchal, as it involves the exploitation of
women through the triple burden. Policies
giving women longer maternity leave, then
men having paternity leave, encourages the
traditional gender divison
- Harmful, as it suggests that living in any other relationship, or
alone are somehow deviant, and a threat to the normal family.
Every time a policy/politician suggests to strengthen the family
they are condemning those who live outside the cereal packet
family such as SPFs or Gay couples with children.
- Anti-social, as it devalues life outside of the family,
much of social life revolves around family activities
and it is hard for those outside to participate, as
well as discouraging other forms of family and
household.
- Patriarchal, as it involves the exploitation of
women through the triple burden. Policies
giving women longer maternity leave, then
men having paternity leave, encourages the
traditional gender divison
- A nuclear family, which
consists of, two married
parents and their
biological children
- The ideology often
includes a family based
on romantic love, as well
as love for the children,
that is a nurturing, caring
and loving institution.
- This ideology represents a
powerful view on how
people should lead their
lifes
- Feminist and Marxist
writers, suggest that many
state polices are formed
around, a dominant family
ideology
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