The British Family between Tension and Stability

Abstract

This dissertation aims at showing some changes in the nature of family policy, and what a family means for parents, children and the huge society as well.The only thing that unites every person in Britain is the need of parents to take more responsibility for their children.The traditional lone man breadwinner family is falling and the rise of lone parent families and other new types of family present several new challenges for government policy on welfare, work-life balance and in many other places.This extended essay also seeks to investigate a set of changes and developments in the British family today, the significant reasons that have contributed to these changes, the effect of such changes on community and the roles that government has played in order to solve some family problems and save their kids from countless dilemmas which are likely to lead them to delinquency, violence, committing crimes or falling prey to terrorists.