Social Care with Children and Families

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1. Briefly discuss the meaning of family from different perspectives Family means different things to different people. Some may view family as the main unit – mother, father, children. Others will view family as the main unit plus friends and the wider community, this is found largely in the black communities. Family may also be viewed as people we have emotional ties with, not necessary blood related. Family can be a single parent, people of same sex, people who live in same household but not related. 2. What is the difference between what is myth and what might be reality when people talk about family life in the past? People often look back at the past in a nostalgic simplistic view using childhood memories. Society looks back at the past as a golden age where people were stronger, wiser, lived longer or better than in the present. This isn’t always how it was, when we look back in the past and see the reality of hardship, political conflict and economic change. There was no value or status to women or children, there were little room for key values of freedom, justice, honesty and equality. Family life was based on patriarchal system where men ruled, sometimes through fear and often through violence. Children were subject to harsh treatment at home and in the workplace with long hours, they were expected to be seen and not heard. There really was no golden age in the past. 3. What is the dominant ideology of the family? The dominant ideology of the family is of a nuclear family consisting of a mother, father and 2.5 children where the father is the main breadwinner and the mother stays home raising the children. 4. In your own words briefly describe what impact social policy has had on families Social policy impacts families in different ways, some will be better off and others less. Immigration policies have a huge impact on black
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