new right perspective on family

• new right overall view on family

  traditional nuclear family offers the most security and the best structure for creating emotionally stable, conformist and responsible adults
• new right criticisms of single parent families


  inadequate socialisation due to lack of both a male and female partner

  cost too much in welfare state benefits
• threats to society - new right


  increased divorce

  gay/lesbian families

  cohabitation

  welfare state policy = alternative families

  lone parents
• effects of threats to society according to new rights


  educational underachievement

  antisocial behaviour

  lack of discipline

  dependancy on benefits

  crime

  alcohol / drug abuse
• murray and marshland - welfare state


  welfare state has undermined personal responsibility, self-help and importance of family support

  benefits encourage single women to have children they can't afford knowing they get support from welfare state

  decline of traditional nuclear family and growing number of lone parent family = emergence of a dependancy culture and a work shy underclass which want to avoid work via benefits

  underclass contributes to wider societal problems such as alcohol abuse, crime and educational failure
• murray - new rabble and new victorians


  new rabble = long term unemployed, welfare dependants, single mothers reliant on benefits. dangerous due to inadequate socialisation

  new victorians = respectable middle class who socialise children properly, work, and pay taxes
• goals of new right concerning the family


  return to traditional family values with government policies to reverse the decline of the traditional family unit via making alternative family options less attractive
• evaluation of new right perspective on family


  ignores dark side of the family

  encourages exploitation of women

  victim blaming approach

  intolerant and non-inclusive