The New Right View on the Single Parent Family

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This paper examines how the New Right thinkers particularly focus on single parents in their attack on the decline of the traditional British family, as they believe that the best situation for children to be raised in is by two loving heterosexual and married parents. It looks at how these Right views are heavily associated with Thatcherism and how many of the thinkers are politicians, writers or moralists, who tend to support the Conservative government. It analyzes how they believe that the increasing amount of single parent families is largely to blame for the decline of the conventional nuclear family and how they claim that promiscuity, pre-martial sex, illegitimacy and divorce, which are now often common features of a modern relationship, come together with single parenting and take part in the extensive decline of the family.

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"As society changes the family and relationships within it will inevitably also change. Many New Right thinkers have criticized some of the modern changes, as they believe that they undermine the importance of the family. For example, the 1969 Divorce Reform Act has allowed a greater freedom for couples who are unhappy within their marriages to separate. However New Right thinkers have heavily criticized this and have attacked governments as they believe that divorce threatens the commitment and responsibility that couples rightfully should devote to their marriages, as divorce provides such an accessible and easy escape if things should not go as planned."

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