Quiz 1

Beveridge Report / Creation of NHS / Welfare State

Functionalist views – state supports the family (Parsons: warm bath theory)

Divorce Reform Act (1969)

Key for increased family diversity – rise in divorce rates. Links to New Right & Feminist critiques

Equal Pay Act (1970) & Sex Discrimination Act (1975)

Feminist views – reduced economic dependence of women, changing gender roles

Legalisation of Abortion (1967) & Family Planning Act (1967)

Women’s control over reproduction - links to Feminist perspectives

Civil Partnership Act (2004) & Gay Marriage Act (2014)

Linked to growing family diversity (Weeks, Stacey) Postmodernism

Maternity/Paternity/Parental Leave

Important for gender equality and policy impact on roles in family

Equality Act (2010)

Broad anti-discrimination law – links to liberal and feminist perspectives

Donzelot (1977)

Conflict view - policy as social control over families, esp. the working class (surveillance)

Murray (New Right)

Critical of welfare – encourages dependency, lone parenthood, decline of nuclear family

Hirsch

Ageing population – policies need to change (e.g. housing, pensions, retirement)

Giddens (Late Modernist)

‘Pure relationships’ and choice - links to changing family structures and policy