New right views

• Nuclear family


  Two married, heterosexual parents with a small number of children
• Nuclear family

  • Essential for society (according to sociologists and thinkers from the New Right)
• In contemporary society (due to government policies)


  The nuclear family has been undermined
• Charles Murray: 'The welfare state provides perverse incentives for people to form lone-parent families e.g. receiving benefits and leading to children growing up in workless households and forming an underclass in society'