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Cross Cultural
Differences In Family
Social Policy:It is important to realise that social policy is context bound and influenced
depending upon the needs/ wants of any particular culture or government.
Rapid population growth in China has means that the
government discourage couples from having multiple
children.
China’s One-Child
Policy:
Couples who comply get extra benefits such as free child
healthcare & priority education for their child. Those who
don’t comply must pay back their allowances & pay fines.
This encourages women to opt for sterilisation treatment
and/ or give up additional children to foster care.
This is supervised by ‘Workplace Family Planning
Committees’ – women must seek permission to become
pregnant (obtaining a license). Workplaces have quotas
& waiting lists.
Russia’s ‘Family-Abolishment’
Policy:
Many women entered paid employment and the state
provided many communal nurseries to encourage this
trend.
This all changed due to years of War & famine. The Soviet Union ‘U-
Turned’ and began to encourage traditional family structures in order to
create a solid industrial economy.Divorce laws were tightened & families that had
more children were rewarded with higher family
allowance benefits. Highly fertile women were
celebrated as ‘Hero Mothers of the Soviet Union’.Romania’s ’Multiple Child’
Policy: In an attempt to drive up the declining population in the
1980s, Romania experienced a restriction on contraception
and abortion as well more stringent divorce laws.
The legal age of marriage was reduced to 15 years-old
& unmarried, childless couples had to pay an extra 5%
income tax.
In light of the Russian Revolution 1917, the newly formed
Soviet Union attempted to eradicate traditional,
patriarchal family structures & as such made divorce &
abortion easier to obtain.
Nazi Germany’s ‘Pure Family’
Policy:During the 1930s, the Nazi state opted for a two-fold
family policy:
1) ‘Racially Pure’ Families were encouraged to breed a
‘Master Race’.
2) A mass cull of the ‘Racially
Impure’.Women were removed from the workforce and confined to ‘Children,
Kitchen & Church as to better perform their biological mother role.
375.000 disabled people were sterilised on the grounds that they were
‘unfit’ to breed due to; Physical Malformation, Mental Retardation,
Epilepsy, Imbecility, Deafness or Blindness’.