NR and social policy

• • Social policies should avoid undermining self-reliant trad. nuclear family
  • Governments weaken families self reliance by providing overly generous welfare benefits
• Murrary

  • Argues benefits offer 'perverse incentives' rewarding anti-social behaviour
  • Father's see state maintain children, may abandon responsibilities
  • Providing council housing for unmarried teenage mothers, may encourage young girls to be pregnant
• Policies that support NR

  • Child support agency makes absent fathers pay
  • Cuts in welfare benefits prevent 'perverse incentives'