The New Right

• believe the rise of lone-parent families are bad for society
• dependency culture


  -when people become too reliant on the state for money & benefits

  -they're no longer motivated to work to provide for themselves
• what does Charles Murray see the growth of LPF a result of?


  over-generous welfare state providing benefits for unmarried mothers & children
• Murray - 'perverse incentive'


  -rewarding irresponsible behaviour

  -Murray argues benefits & welfare state has created this
• Murray : solution for dependency culture


  -abolish welfare benefits entirely

  -won't encourage births outside of marriage anymore
• what do critics of the New Right argue?


  -welfare benefits are far from generous

  -lone parent families are much more likely to be in poverty due to:

  > lack of affordable childcare, preventing lone parents from working or limiting working hours

  > most being women, typically earning less than men

  > failure of fathers to pay child maintenance

  > inadequate welfare benefits from the state