Divorce

Divorce A wide range of data and developments are cited to demonstrate that the family is under stress and is even in danger of breaking up. However, it is important to note that many sociologists wholly or largely reject this thesis that the family is breaking up, and favor instead a different model of analysis and interpretation. The crux of the debate is, is the family disappearing as a social institution or is it merely …

…as the family being in decline or the family adapting to changing social conditions. The New Right tend to be critical of any variation in what they perceive as traditional family values and blame all sorts of social problems on single parent families which are seen as dysfunctional and probably welfare dependent. Many critics have suggested that New Right thinkers tend to lay blame on victims for problems, which are not of their own making