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Social policy and the family:Intro:
Define social policy*
Policy = plans and actions
Delivering to an institution
Carried out in society
View in favour*
Theory - Purpose of social policy - Example policy - Evaluation -
Functionali - view the purpose of social Welfare state: - assumes all members of
st view policy as being to help families - introduced after the family benefit equally
perform their functions more WW2 - feminists argue that social
effectively - all people were policy benefits men more
- are in favour of universal eligible for free than women
benefits health care, - child benefits paid to
This helps families to: education and mothers may lead to
Reproduction of the next benefits when fathers not contributing
generation needed (e.g. state more to support their
Primary socialisation of pension, children
children unemployment - maternity leave reinforces
Remain fit and well for benefits etc) traditional gender roles,
work Lord Beveridge: however, men may argue
- all people should that paternity leave
be looked after discriminates against them
from cradle to - assumes that social policy
grave is evidence of a ‘march of
progress’ in family life, but
Marxists disagree and
argue that many policies
turn back the clock, since
cuts to benefits leave many
in poverty
Donzelot - social policy is used as a way Compulsory - Marxist and Feminists
(conflict of the state to control families - parenting orders: argue that Donzelot fails to
theory) > the state implements policies - parents of mention who benefits from
that allow for the surveillance truanting and badly policing the family, which is
of families behaved children the continuation of
- it gives state agencies the are made to take a Capitalism
power to intervene in family life course in parenting - this view ignores that
when it’s not functioning in the families benefit from being
way it is legally required to do policed at times, such as
so when protecting vulnerable
- social workers, health visitors, members of the family
police, educational
psychologists etc
, - Donzelot calls this ‘policing of
the family’
New right - social policy should encourage Married couples’ - feminists argue that the
view families to be ‘self-reliant’ as allowance: NR are attempting to justify
recent decades have - allowed married a return to the patriarchal
encouraged a dependency couples to earn NF
culture more than - NR assumes that the NF is
- instead of universal benefits, unmarried couples natural and ideally suited to
they should be ‘means tested’, before being taxed raise children, but ignores
and only given to those who - removal of the that many are far from
have a genuine need single-parents’ ideal
- the universal benefits benefits were to - Abbott and Wallace, argue
approach to social policy has discourage single- that cutting benefits will
been a perverse incentive, parent families simply put many hard-
according to Murray, for some working families into
families to depend on state poverty
handouts - NR ignore that many
- also, social policy should social polices support NF’s
encourage the formation of rather than undermining it
nuclear families - the coalition government
- the state should not interfere introduced several social
with family life, except in cases policies that supported
of wellbeing for its members alternative family types to
NF’s, including same-sex
marriage and means
testing child benefit
Feminist - feminists argue that social Maternity and - there are some polices
view policy has historically promoted paternity leave: that do not promote NF’s,
the cereal packet family (NF) - women are e.g. same sex marriage
- this means that social policy expected to take - however, men and women
has helped to maintain the time off to raise can now share parental
women’s subordination through a child leave with each other, but
the unequal division of labour - which is why they only as long as their
within the nuclear family get up to one-year employers agree to this
- social policy has also paid leave and only CSA:
reinforced the role of women as get two weeks - was set up as a means of
carers have made it more CSA: supporting the SPF’s, most
difficult for women to balance - seeks absent of whom are female headed
their work and private lives fathers to make and has been unable to
them financially track down all absent
support their child, fathers
but not do the - for some mothers, having
childcare absent fathers in the lives
of their children is not
beneficial (especially if he
has been abusive), and
, therefore they do not
approach the CSA, meaning
there is little alternative
support
Policy Cause of Effect on Effect on Effect on Effect on
policy structure of experiences of gender role functions of
families childhood the family
Raising - greater - more - increased - caregiving - allows the
retireme advances in vertically involvement of responsibilities women to
nt age medical extended women in may need to be continue to
- pension technology families employment has redistributed, work, not
act 2007 - healthier - led to less men taking on caring for the
+ 2014 lifestyles and grandparents children being more childcare elderly
diets can afford born - less
-less their own - mitigates the childcare
dangerous housing for amount of time available
occupations longer grandparents - can provide
- dependency - affecting the can spend with children and
ratio tipping dynamics of grandchildren, grandchildren
toward more multigenerati impacting family with economic
people being on bonds and support
out of work households support systems
than in paid
employment
Singe - greater - expands the - raised in a - challenges - legal
sex social definition of single-sex traditional recognition of
marriage acceptance family, leads households gender roles same-sex
2014 - changes in to more - legal associated with marriages
Same-sex legislation diverse family recognition of marriage and grants
Marriage - changes in structures their parents parenting couples
Act – attitudes to relationship can - can contribute access to
Allowed relationships provide stability to greater various
for more - changing and legal acceptance of benefits and
diverse representatio protections for diverse gender rights
family ns in the children identities and associated
structures media roles within with marriage,
- work of society as a such as
activists whole inheritance
Stonew
all
- process of
secularisation
Divorce - social - more lone - living in two - insecure nature - men are
, laws change parent households of family life = more likely to
- evolving families and - having an gender roles be involved in
attitudes reconstituted absent parent need to be more domestic
- divorce - greater need equal labour and
leads to the for child support - women have childcare
dissolution of agencies greater choice - women are
the NF - can lead to and input in the expected to
- results in conflict or stress family contribute to
various forms for children, or - modern divorce income
of co- resolving it in laws strive to be - impacts
parenting the instance of more equitable financial
arrangements an unhappy and gender- stability
or single marriage neutral - changes
parent parental roles
households
(custody
arrangements
)
Compulso - recognition - beanpole - impact of - both genders - children
ry of the need families, more educational having access to require adult
education for an child centred, policy on free education financial
educated put all children’s until the age of support for
population resources into mental health 18, address longer, have
- promotes one or two - provides gender become
social children children with disparities economic
cohesion and - shapes opportunities for - women now burdens
economic routines, learning and have career - support with
development increased socialisation aspirations homework
parental - more exposed - shifts social introduces
involvement to bullying attitudes toward stresses in the
in childcare - inadequate gender family
resources expectations
impacts
experiences
Housing - to address - households - shapes the - policies that - access to
policies housing containing physical support housing
shortages multiple environment affordable provides a
- ensure families has which children housing options stable
access to increased by grow up and may alleviate foundation for
affordable three- develop in financial burdens family life
housing quarters to - affordable on families,
297,000 housing provides potentially
households in children with a reducing
2019 safe reliance on
environment traditional
- poor housing gender roles
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