criticisms

• feminists argue...

  -it's an attempt to justify a return to traditional patriarchal nuclear family

  -subordinating women
• -wrongly assumes the nuclear family is 'natural' rather than socially constructed
• Abbott & Wallace


  -cutting benefits would simply drive many poor families into greater poverty

  -make them less self-reliant
• -ignores that many policies support & maintain the conventional nuclear family rather than undermine it