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Families & Social Policy - Coggle Diagram
Families & Social Policy
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Divorce - policies affect how long a couple have to stay married before filing for divorce & who gains child custody
children - policies include: going to school until 16, not being able to work part time until 13
→ laws that affect children from: smoking, drinking, sexual behav.
welfare - child benefit paid to primary carers, benefits available to single parents, unemployed & housing
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Educational - Johnson 1982 : argues schools organised that makes it diff. for single parents & dual worker families to combine work & domestic responsibilities
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Care for elderly - Parker 1982 - state assistance not given if sick/old indiv. w/ relatives there is assumption family will care for them
→ old expected to use savings to pay for their care, rather than free from state
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→ e.g. 1993 Child Support Agency - make absent parents provide financial support to parent raising the child
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- believe SP should be there to help families
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- believe families exist to serve needs of capitalism
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- conflict view of society → policy form of state control over families
- interested in how prof.carry out surveillance of families
→ argues social workers etc, use knowledge to control families → 'policing of families'
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- sees it as undermining & changing nuclear family
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- solution : cut social policies within welfare to keep families together
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- split in terms of belief of SP is beneficial or not
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