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Policy affecting Family - Coggle Diagram
Policy affecting Family
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Other Important Policies
Beverage Report 1942 - Introduced the welfare state including housing benefit and the NHS - Led to removal of some functions of the family to the welfare state
Ev - Inequalities like ethnicity and gender that have an affect except class
Divorce Reform Act 1969 - Made divorce easier to obtain, allowed women to divorce husband without having to prove adultary, abuse or abandonment - increase in family diversity especially singles parent families and reconstituted families, increased women independence
Ev - Doesn't mean that all women have freedom as still trapped in bad marriages
Legalisation of Contraceptive Pill 1967 - Made it legal for women who were unmarried to obtain the contraceptive pill - women had control over their bodies + how many children they had leading to a decline in birth rate
EV - Still had to pay so limited to those who could afford it
Views on Policies
Fletcher - Health + education + housing policies led to welfare state which supports the family in completing its functions
Ev - Ignores inequalities for women
New Right - Conventional heterosexual nuclear family is self sufficient and social policies have a negative influence on society by promoting family diversity
Ev - Doesn't acknowledge the positives they bring such as reducing inequality
Feminism - Policies assume what a normal patriarchal nuclear family with male breadwinner + female homemaker so social policies maintain this family type
Ev - Ignores how laws affect those in lower classes
Marxists - Family policy is a way for the ruling class to maintain their capitalist control of society and ensure the family supports capitalism
Ev - Ignores how laws affect women
Types of Policy
Providing Material Support for the family such as cash benefits through tax credits and child benefits
Helping parents to balance working life and family life. Policies such as maternity pay, early years and childcare and child protection laws