new right

• Marsland

  Older people rely on benefits as they can no longer work. They do not have the physical or mental ability to work. older people are seen as a financial burden on the state, contributing to their marginalisation.
• Murray

  Dependency culture

  Welfare policies discourage young people from seeking employment to fend for themselves
• Saunders

  Older people are not disadvantaged because of discrimination, but because they lack the skills and adaptability in a changing job market. So age inequality doesn't exist as a structural issue.
• Morgan

  Children face inequality from divorced and lone parent families. They are inadequately socialised as they do not know how to fulfill the expressive and instrumental roles of the family, so they cannot prepare their children for society.