Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Summary of Families and Households - Families and Social Policy (AS, A-level, and GCSE)
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Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level
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Families and Households - Topic 7:Families and Social Policy
A comparative view of family policy
Key:
Heheh-Sociologist Heheh-Important information
- Actions and Policies can affect individuals and their families
- Cross-cultural examples (different societies and historical periods) can show
the ways that government policy can affect family life
● China’s one-child policy (1970’s-2015)
- Aim for population control → encouraging couples to have only one child
- Policies were supervised by family planning committees → Women had to
seek permission, and there was quotas/waiting list for each factory
- Couples who complied had extra benefits → free child healthcare, higher tax
allowance, priority in housing/education (for the only child)
- Breaking the agreement led to fines and repayment of allowances
- Women were forced to undergo sterilisation after giving birth
- 2015 → Introduction of a two-child policy
- 2021 → Introduction of three-child policy (due to concerns about
demographic imbalances)
● Communist Romania
- 1980’s → Policies to increase the birth rate (as it had decreased due to a fall
in living standards)
- Restricted contraception/abortion, difficult divorce settlement, lowered the
legal age of marriage to 15, unmarried/childless couples had to pay an extra 5%
income tax
● Nazi family policy
- 1930’s → Two-fold policy (Encouraged ‘racially pure’ people to breed a
‘master race’ (e.g. restricted access to abortion/contraception)
- Kept women out of the workplace to fulfil domestic ‘duties’
- State compulsorily sterilised 375,000 disabled people → deemed to breed
due to ‘physical malformation, mental retardation, epilepsy, deafness, and
blindness
- Many were murdered in the concentration camps
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