New Right

• New Right - social policy

  • Conserve trad. vales
  • Consensus structuralism = society needs values and institutions to maintain social order
  • Nuclear family = important, trad. roles crucial
  • Reduced state intervention
• Murrary

  • State spending on benefits = welfare dependency > encourages single parenting > decline in morals
  • Young men lack father figures, formed an underclass which developed their own norms, displaying criminal behaviour
• Influence on family policy

  1. CSA, ensure fathers paid support for children
  2. Lower taxation, enable families to support themselves
  3. Crime policies = parenting classes for parents with anti-social children
• Influence of neo-liberal economics

  • Reduction in benefits > incentive to work
  • Lower state spending > more personal choice and responsibility
• Nuclear family

  • Based on biological differences and place on contentment
  • Decline in trad. family and increase in family diversity > high crime rates and decline in morals
• Overall criticisms of NR

  • Feminists = socially determined gender roles rather than biological
  • Lone parents likely to end in poverty > cuts to state spending
  • Most single parents don't depend on welfare state