Conservative government

• Conservative government 1979-97 > Thatcher


  -banned promotion of homosexuality in local authorities > ban on teaching it to be acceptable

  -defined divorce as a social problem

  -emphasised the continued responsibility of parents for their children after divorce
• Conservative Child Support Agency 


  -to enforce maintenance payments by absent parents

  > usually fathers
• measures brought in by Conservatives that were opposed by The New Right


  -making divorce easier

  -giving 'illegitimate' children the same rights as those born to married parents