New Right

New Right is a group led by Functionalists and Conservative leaders and thinkers, like Charles Murray. The 1950’s are considered the ‘Golden Age’ of family, where every family was a traditional, nuclear family. This idea was broken in the 60’s and 70’s by a permissive society, which ‘attacked’ family values.Because of new laws, things started to change in society. New families were born and new ideas were unleashed.

The first two points gave women the freedom to control their bodies and their fertility. Also, there were Acts brought in to give women more freedom and the opportunity to be more equal with men. Some example of these Acts are: Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Equal Pay Act 1970, Equal Opportunities Act 1995 and Divorce Reform Act 1969. New Right says that these Laws and Acts took women away from their natural roles, e.g. housewife and mother. Also, because of these Acts and Laws, there are a lot higher divorce rates and a lot more lone-parents families around today.

Because there exists lone-parent families, New Right believe that they are to blame for society’s negatives. They believe lone-parent families are incredibly bad for the individual, and cause problematic areas in society such as: They cause social problems,Children lack both role models, They have financial problems and therefore live off Government Benefits, They are responsible for crim, They underachieve, They’re more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse, They’re more likely to live in poverty. New Right and Functionalists do not like them because they believe that lone-parent families are responsible for all that is wrong for their precious sociological theory that society is an absolute positive thing.

New Right believe that the best and only type of family is the traditional, nuclear family. This is a family of two heterosexual adults, who are married and in a sexual relationship, producing children and teaching them the same norms and values that they were taught when they were...