New right explanations

• Murray


  • Girls brought up in single parent households may be emotionally damaged, and search for a father substitute. They may also get pregnant at an early age
  • Boys brought up in single parent households are unsocialised. They have poor impulse control, become sexual predators, and are likely to disappear when their baby is born
• Underclass


  Dependant on benefits.

  Don't have jobs.

  Not likely to own their own homes
• Murray


  Single mothers and single fathers are to blame for the high rates of criminality amongst youth
• Dennis & Erdos

  • Absent fathers lead to boys growing up without male role models, contributing to educational failure, aggression & deviance
  • Deviant subcultures are a product of the decline of the traditional family