A summary grid of how five social policies might affect different aspects of family life. Designed to help students revise for A-level sociology – the families and households topic.
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| Policy | First Thoughts – How might this policy affect family life in the UK? | More specifically will this support or undermine the conventional nuclear family? | Who does this policy benefit?
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| The 1969 and 1984 Divorce Acts | · Increases divorce and thus single parent, single person and reconstituted households
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· Undermine | · Women (in abusive relationships) |
| Maternity and Paternity Acts | · Should make relationships between men and women more equal
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· Undermine | · Women (encourages men to become primary child carers)
· And men – easier for them to be stay at home dads) |
| The Civil Partnership and Gay Marriage Acts | · Reduces stigma against same sex relationships
· Encourages more same sex families
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· Undermine | · Same sex couples (reduction of stigma) |
| Universal Child Benefits | · Encourage (poorer) parents to have more children, larger families
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· Support | · Families with children
· children |
| Income Support for Single Parents | · Reduce the number of single parents
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· Support (recent changes make it more difficult for single parents to claim benefits) | · (losers) single parents |
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