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• China's One Child Policy


  1980 - 2016 and encouraged sex selective abortions and reduced Chinas estimated population today by 400 million
• Nazi Germany family policy

  1939 - a law for the reduction of employment which encouraged women to stay home and work. to secure the future of the Aryan race, women could volunteer to provide children for the SS
• Decree 770


  1967 - policies restricted abortion and contraception with the intent to create a new and large Romanian population. countless women lost their lives receiving illegal abortions
• The private sphere


  domestic domain of the home and what the family was thought to be apart of - not commented on until the 1980s
• Allan 1985


  state policy is linked to benefit the nuclear family but recently this debate has shifted and some believe that the nuclear family is being undermined by the government
• Functionalist view of social policy


  the state acts in interest of society as a whole and policies are good for all. Fletcher argued that the introduction of health, education, and housing policies gradually let to a welfare state that supports the family more effectively
• The new right view of social policy


  nuclear families were the best and single parenthood created a social disorder, legalised abortion and the contraceptive pill was an attack on traditional family values, the divorce reform act 1969 undermined marriage, they argue that the law discourages women from staying home and children suffer from 'maternal deprivation' and deviant family types are encouraged by the state
• The welfare system


  money paid by the government to people in need, for example, the unemployed
• Charles Murray


  dependency culture
• The child support agency 1993


  set up by the conservative government (influenced by the new right) to ensure absent fathers could not escape financial responsibility for their children
• Child maintenance service 2014


  replaced the child support agency 1993