Assess Sociological Views of the Impact That Laws and Government Policies Have on Family Life
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Assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life (24 marks)
There have been a number of government policies that have impacted on family life and made it better and worse. These policies include changes in law on divorce which has resulted in family diversity such as the increase in cohabitation, lone parent and reconstituted families. According to Murray, the growth of lone-parent families is due to an over generous welfare state which has resulted in a dependency culture. Changes in the law on the position of women which has affected family life positively. Women can now control their fertility with the use of contraception, which results in smaller families making them more child-centred. Women are also going out to work more therefore delaying having children until they are much older.
In the early 19th century divorce used to be difficult to obtain. Women were not allowed to divorce their husbands and because the traditional nuclear family was the only family that was well looked upon, couples rarely got divorced as other family types were looked down upon. However, changes in the law have made divorce easier to access, especially for women. Government policies equalised the grounds for divorce between the sexes and made divorce cheaper. This was then followed by a rise in the number of divorce petitions from women as it was much easier to obtain. Changes in the law on divorce had a huge effect on family life as family diversity emerged and became more common. There was a huge rise in the number of lone-parent and reconstituted families and these type of families had not been as common as they were before. The increase in family diversity has made the stigma attached to them decline as people are becoming more accepting of different families that aren’t the traditional nuclear family.
The increase in separation and divorce has also created more one-person households especially among men. This is because, following...
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