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New Right and Postmodernist Perpsectives

Lesson Objective: To introduce New Right and Postmodernist perspectives on the nuclear family

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The New Right and post modernism offer two contrasting perspectives on the nuclear family
The New Right
The New Right perspective on the nuclear family is very similar to the view. New Right ideas developed in the 1980's e.g. Charles . The New Right believes that the nuclear family is for society.

Charles Murray claims that the positive influence of the family is under threat from social trends like quick and easy divorces, rising divorce . These he believes are responsible for a breakdown in family values which has led to rising crime and other social .

New Right theorists also before that benefit payments are too high and that this creates a "culture of " which encourages an "underclass" to develop which has little or no interest in for a living. Murray believes that single should not receive generous benefits because it encourages them to bring up children outside of traditional nuclear .

New Right ideas have influenced the social policies of both recent Labour and Conservative governments both of which have made it more difficult for people to claim and benefits. New Right inspired social policies like the Child Support aim to force absent to pay for the upkeep of their children after divorce rather than the State.
New Right ideas are often criticised for "blaming the " of social problems rather than offering real and long lasting solutions

Postmodernism
Post modernists suggest that in the post modern era there is a wide of family arrangements people can choose from - nuclear, extended, reconstituted, cohabitation etc. They claim that no one type dominates and that family arrangements are and fluid. Post modernists see such flexibility as a positive thing. Judith Stacey for instance suggests that a single individual will experience a variety of family structures throughout their span