the new right

• nuclear family is in crisis

  -increase in divorce rate

  -increase in cohabitation-living in sin

  -increase in 'untraditional' same sex marriage

  -large increase in welfare dependancy >:(
• marsland


  -only nuclear family should exist anything else is deviant

  -welfare state has created a Culture.Of.Dependancy
• marslands problems with the welfare state


  -takes away individual self responsibility

  -creates an incentive to stay unemployed

  -takes away money from industry:education,NHS,transport

  welfare state costs 300 billion annually

  -weakens family ties
• Marslands solution

  abolish the welfare state

  except the deserving (old, sick, and the disabled)
• Redwood


  -stop incentives for young women to become mothers

  -as a last resort the state will help single women by putting them in hostels
• murray


  -the welfare state has encouraged young unmarried teenagers to become pregnants for benefits and a council house

  -societies new rabble

  -solution: stop their benefits and starve them into marriage
• Jordan critique of the new right perspective


  the welfare state isnt too generous its too mean as seen in poverty trap

  -people become part of the underclass with no help of escaping

  
• Dean & Taylor Gooby critique of the new right perspective


  -85 interviews people claiming welfare

  -asked if they want to work 4/85 dont want to work
• issues with Dean & Taylor Gooby study


  -small sample

  -liars

  -interviewer bias