Examine the ways in which that state policies may affect families and households.
Examine the ways in which that state policies may affect families and households.
There are many broad trends can be seen in state policy which suggests that the ideology of the traditional nuclear family has had, despite New Right misgivings, some positive influences on government thinking. The family ‘lost’ function in a way as they were able to bring up their own children their own way which was suitable to them but when the state policy took over, they were then seen as losing power as would not know or control how their children may be thinking throughout the future.
The family ideology for ‘Housing policy’ has always been that the traditional nuclear family is clearly the dominant family type. Other types of families may be ‘punished’ or discouraged. However the state policy for this is that Harding argues that the best council housing is often allocated to married couples with children and the worst housing on problem estates is allocated to one- parent families. Housing in the UK is overwhelming designed for the nuclear family. This affected families hugely as then they are ‘forced’ into becoming the nuclear family as this is what society is based upon. So therefore non-nuclear may find it harder to fit within society even though the government encourages these sorts of families. However many people still do not accept these types of families as they are seen as ‘wrong’ but others are willing to embrace it more within the society.
