New Labour

• New Labour governments (1997-2010)

  Strong emphasis on the importance of family while also supporting family diversity
• New Labour governments (1997-2010)

  • Cuts to lone parent families = promote mothers going to work while children receive professional childcare
  • Paid paternity leave = men able to get two weeks of paid parental leave
  • Civil partnership act = same sex couples legally recognised on same terms as marriage
• Evaluation of New Labour governments

  • Wanted to replace welfare with jobs to encourage women to work > reality was that they wanted to spend less money on welfare
  • Recognised family diversity but didn't create many changes > still saw ideal family as traditional nuclear family
  • Civil partnership act = missed opportunity for gay marriage