ideologies

• family diversity 


  -many different family types present in todays society
• functionalist ideology

  -favours nuclear family

  -due to biological differences and how they perform 4 essential functions the best
• the new right ideology

  -strongly against

  -nuclear > biologically natural

  economically superior
• Murray - new right


  -particularly critical of lone parent families

  -women unable to discipline children > delinquency & bad

  behaviour

  -lone parents typically more reliant on state welfare > dependency

  culture & burdening taxpayers
• new right - co-habitation

  -Bensons study

  -found in baby's first 3 years, parents 2.33x more likely to break up if they cohabit rather than marry
• feminists argue

  -conventional family types oppress women due to patriarchal norms & values

  -gender roles socially constructed

  -sexist / mysogynistic saying how women can't discipline children
• lone parents argue

  -not all lone parents raised delinquent children
• the meaning of cohabitation

  -relationships are about the meaning of those involved

  -doesn't matter if you marry