Social Policy

• Policies that affected family life

  China's one child policy - encourage women to undergo sterilisation after first child

  Communist Romania - forbid contraception, made it difficult to divorce + lowered marriage age to 15
• FLETCHER


  Introduction of healthcare, education + housing = welfare state to support families e.g. NHS
• DONZELOT


  'the policing of families' impact of policies = control + power over families
• PEARCE


  'caring face of capitalism'
• MURRAY


  State is overly generous - 'perverse incentives' rewards for anti social behaviour and not being able to provide for family
• LEONARD


  Even when policies seem to support women they still go against them

  e.g. maternity leave - implying that women are the natural carers
• DREW


  'gender regimes' - traditional roles, instead turn to individualistic regimes
• 1942 Beveridge Report


  Development of welfare state

  e.g. national insurance, aimed to reduce poverty and improve lives
• 1969 Divorce Act


  Divorce after 2yrs if both partied agreed

  Divorce after 5yrs if one partner wanted divorce
• 1975 Sex Discrimination Act


  Made discrimination on the grounds of sex illegal
• 1970 Equal Pay Act


  Illegal to discriminate on the basis of Pay
• 1991 Rape became illegal


  Indicated rape was not ok, but it was hard to prove
• 2004 Civil partnership Act


  Allowed same-sex couples to register through a civil partnership
• 2014 Gay Marriage Act


  Allowed sam sex couples to register a marriage and convert a civil partnership to a marriage
• 2014 Shared Parental leave


  Allowed parents to share up to 50 weeks of leave
• 2022 No-Fault divorce


  Allowed the parties to file for a divorce because of irretrievable breakdown not blaming one party for the divorce