| A | B |
|---|
| Charles Murray | New Right: demonises one parent families |
| Dennis & Erdo | New Right: the effect on boys growing up in single parent families without a father can lead to them becoming anti-social, immature & irresponsible as adults |
| George Murdock | functionalism: family is essential to society and performs four main functions sexual, economic, reproductive & educational |
| Talcott Parsons | functionalism: family is essential for society and has two basic and irreducible functions |
| Spencer | :new right Social Darwinism |
| R D Laing | psychological: family can be a destructive and explitive institution |
| Engels (1884) | Marxist: Monogamous patriarchal family developed to solve inheritance problem of private property. They could ensure the paternity of their male heirs by maintaining dominance over women |
| Karl Marx | Marxist: family is essential for society as it reproduces the existing relations of production and helps to cope with them |
| Benston (1972), Delphy & Leonard (1992) | Marxist Feminists: women make the main contribution to family life and receive the least benefit |
| Andrea Dworkin | Radical Feminists: root of the oppression of women is that society is patriarchal |
