families and households

Any incident of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse in the home

That women take responsibility for a child's security and well-being

He argues that childhood is disappearing. as a result of children having the same rights as adults, disappearance of unsupervised games, similarities in clothing etc...

primary socialisation and stabalisation of adult personalities

for the inheritance of private property

men are the enemy and that the family and marriage are key institutions in keeping women below men

47%

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Over generous welfare state

Abolish welfare benefits

Aimed at achieving success at work and being the breadwinner, this is the husbands role

Aimed at primary socialisation and taking care of the emotional and mental needs of the family and if there is an ill family member, this is the mothers role.

Where the couple have separate roles, such as the man making the money and woman doing housework. They also spend leisure and activities separately

Where the couple share tasks such as housework. They tend to spend leisure time together

That men are now taking on greater share of domestic tasks, particularly in younger and more affluent couples.

The society is gradually becoming more and more equal

The idea that the roles are being shared more e.g. women working more and men doing more domestic work

1. Changes in women's position 2. geographical mobility 3. New technology 4. Higher standards of living

They argue that little has changed

She argues that their claims are exaggerated, with husbands only helping their wives around once a week.

She found that only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and only 25% had a high level of participation in childcare

When specific roles are assigned to a specific sex e.g. woman washing clothes and man washing car

That men took responsibility for childcare in less than 4% of families

Taking care of someones, emotional and mental well-being

Housework, Paid work and emotion work

Peoples time has become more fragmented, and mothers are the main people in the triple shift, meaning they have lots of responsibility

Division of labour determined by patriarchal norms & values that shape the gender roles in our culture

Women generally earn less than men, so it makes sense for men to do paid work and women to do housework

1. Men gain more from women's domestic work than they give back in financial support 2. The financial support that husbands give to their wives is often unpredictable and come with 'strings' attached 3. Men usually make the decisions about spending on important items

When men give their wives an allowance to spend based on their financial income, and the man retains any surplus income

When both partners have access to income and joint responsibility for expenditure

Aries and shorter

The increase in televison culture, and decrease in print culture

She says that he over emphasises on the impact of television

£227,000

1. Adults are becoming more protective 2. relationships are now becoming more unstable

Rapid technological and cultural changes

Boys tend to have more freedom and girls do more domestic work

stable sex drive, reproduction, primary socialisation, economic

to be geographically and socially mobile

femeninists who believe that society is becoming more equal, but there is more work to do

he came up with the theory of a neo-conventional family with a dual earner family. he also says that most people are liely to live in a nuclear family at some point n their lifetime

their view is that the nuclear family is correct

they argue:
- lone mothers can’t discipline their children properly
- lone-parent families leave boys without an adult male role model, which can affect their education and success in wider society
- likely to be poorer and burden a welfare state

Oakley argue that the new right assume that men and womens roles are fixed by biology

It restricted contraception and abortion, made divorce more difficult to obtain, lowered the legal age of marriage to 15 and made unmarried adults and childless couples pay more income tax

they argue that state benefit such as the NHS and education system benefit the family

it assumes that there is a march of progress with social policy steadily making the family better and better

he believes that over generous welfare benefits encourage teenage pregnancy, with more boys growing up without a good male role model

more and more women are choosing to leave their families and establish new ones to meet their needs of happiness

149,000

those left behind, particularly the elderly are affected as there are less family members to take care of them

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decline in manufacturing in the UK due to globalisation, most of which were male dominated. this has lead to an increase in women working as more tertiary sector jobs are available, resulting in joint conjugal roles and more dual earner families, promoting teh march of progress

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A child can’t be deprived of their own culture, and argues that working class children are culturally different not deprived

People from poorer homes have lower intakes of energy, vitamins and minerals, as well as a weaker immune system

in 2010, students whose first language was english performed 3.2 percentage points better when it came to gaining 5 GCSEs A*-C

A lack of motivation among many black children leads them to not be willing to make the necessary sacrifices needed for long term success

Many Black families are headed by a lone mother, meaning that their children are deprived of adequate care as she struggles financially

He says that the high rate of lone parenthood and lack of a positive male role model leads to underachievement of ethnic minorities

He says that Asians are more resistant to racism than Black Caribbeans, so they have a higher self worth

He found that the women did less and less domestic work, whereas men did more and more, displaying a march of progress

In 1984, 45% of men and 41% of women said that it was the mans job to make money and womens to do housework, but in 2012, this number was only 13% fro men and 12% for women

1%

If a couple’s parents had an equal relationship, they are more likely to have an equal relationship themselves

Sons claim to do more domestic work than their fathers and daughters do less than their mothers

for every £10,000 a woman earns, she does 2 hours less domestic work per week

When the husband sees his authority challenged, such as a wife asking why he was home late for meal

Emphasis the role of patriarchal ideas

Domestic violence occurs as a result of a lack of resources