new right perspective on family

new right perspective

• support conventional gender roles - men as breadwinners and women responsible for childcare and housework

• breakdown of nuclear family leads to inadequate socialisation

• single-parent families lack strong male role models - leading to delinquency and antisocial behaviour

• individual responsibility for children - opposed to state welfare

Murray

• welfare dependency contributes to emergence of an underclass

AO3 criticism of new right’s view of single mothers

• exaggerated view - contributing to moral panic

• approx. 1% of single parents in UK are teenagers

• avg. age of single parent is 39

• most single mothers are in paid work

• negative narrative is pushed by media - seen as dysfunctional, chaotic, stressful etc. - actually more likely to be the opposite e.g. escaping toxic or abusive relationships/nuclear family structures

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