•Recognise the negative impact that long-term dependence on benefits can have within communities and families.
•Offer practical policy solutions to try to tackle the issue of welfare dependency e.g welfare to work programmes.
Weakness Of NR
•Overlooks problems in nuclear families - what about those which don’t provide a stable environment?•Overly critical of non-traditional families – ignores those which do provide a stable environment.•Advocates benefit cuts which worsen poverty and affect children worst of all.Has a patriarchal, sexist view of gender roles
