pre 1980s family policy

• beverage report 1942


  introduction of welfare state, housing benefits and NHS = removal of some functions of family
• divorce reform act 1969 


  divorce easier to obtain

  women can file without having to prove adultery, abuse or abandonment.

  = increase in diversity especially single parent and reconstituted families.
• legalisation of contraceptive pill 1967


  unmarried women can obtain contraceptive pill legally = decline in birth rate
• employment protection act 1975


  made sacking women due to pregnancy illegal

  amended in 1993 so pregnant women got minimum of 14weeks statutory maternity leave