the new right

• for or against family diversity?

  strongly against
• view on nuclear family

  -biologically determined

  -economically superior
• Murray's view on lone parent families


  -particularly critical of these

  -women are unable to discipline their children > leading to delinquency & bad behaviour

  -LPH typically more reliant on state welfare, contributing to dependency culture & burdening taxpayers
• Benson : against cohabitation


  -study finds in first 3 years of baby's life, the parents are more likely to break up if they cohabit (20%)

  -compared to 6% if they married
• why might Bensons study of parents splitting if they don't marry be the case


  -divorce is expensive

  -marriage means they're more committed

  -if they never married in the first place it might be that they knew they wouldn't stay together