New Right theories of the nuclear family
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- Created on: 22-04-17 22:10
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- New Right theories of the nuclear family
- Nuclear family functions
- Reproducing
- Making children self-reliant
- Teaching moral values
- Disciplining adults
- NUCLEAR FAMILY IS UNDER THREAT
- Natural 'tendency' to form family units is under threat, due to:
- Decline in marriage rates
- Increase in divorce rates
- Rise in cohabitation rates
- Lone-parent families
- Father-less families
- 'perverse' incentives to not form family units
- MURRAY
- A break down in family life has serious individual and social consequences
- Non-Nuclear families are a problem
- Children from broken homes are 4x more likely to develop behavioural problems
- Young people whose parents split are twice as likely to live in poverty, than two-parent families
- Children from broken homes are 9x more likely to become young offenders
- Natural 'tendency' to form family units is under threat, due to:
- Causes of the breakdown of traditional family values
- Welfare benefits
- Influence of feminism
- Increased sexual permissiveness
- Secularisation
- Tolerance of same-sex relationships
- Criticisms of New Right Theories
- Out of touch with modern society
- Racist
- Homophobic
- Sexist
- FEMINIST
- Gender roles are oppressive to females
- INTERACTIONIST/ POSTMODERN
- Most single parent families are not 'benefit scroungers'
- Most want to work but struggle to find flexible working hours around child care
- Most single parent families are not 'benefit scroungers'
- FUNCTIONALIST
- Exaggerate the extent that cohabitating and single parent families affect society
- Most children still grow up in a nuclear family arrangement
- CHESTER- NEO-CONVENTIONAL
- Most children still grow up in a nuclear family arrangement
- Exaggerate the extent that cohabitating and single parent families affect society
- Out of touch with modern society
- Nuclear family functions
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