Redefining Family Policy (eBook)

Implications for the 21st Century

Joyce M. Mercier, Steven B. Garasky, Mack C. Shelley (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
286 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-29004-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States. Here, emphasis in family policy is shifted from a centralized entitlement approach to an exchange of personal responsibility, work, and training for better support services.

Autor

Joyce M. Mercier is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley. Steven B. Garasky is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley. Mack C. Shelley, II is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Foreword vii

Jacques Lempers

Acknowledgments, x

Introduction: The Need to Redefine Family Policy xi

Joyce M. Mercier and Steven B. Garasky

Contributors xxiii

Part 1 Perspectives on Contemporary Family Policy 1

1. Family Policy at the End of the 20th Century 3

Steven K. Wisensale

2. States' Political Cultures and Their Family Policies in the
1990s 21

Shirley L. Zimmerman

3. Family Policy in Japan 43

Patricia Boling

4. Voices from Below: The Use of Ethnographic Research for
Informing Public Policy 67

Robin L. Jarrett

Part 2 Family Policy Across the Life Cycle 85

5. The Role of Child Care in Effective Welfare Reform 87

Kristen A. Norman-Major

6. Policy Implications for the Delivery of High-Quality
Infant/Toddler Child Care 111

Alisa S. Ghazvini and Ronald L. Mullis

7. The Effects of Foster Parent Preservice Training on Parenting
Attitudes, Foster Parenting Attitudes, and Foster Care Knowledge
135

Sedahlia Jasper Crase, Kristi S. Lekies, Dahlia F. Stockdale,
Diann C. Moorman, Angela C. Baum, Amy Moeller Yates, Renée
Gillis-Arnold, and Kristin Riggins-Caspers

8. Older Americans' Access to Health Care: A Three Cohort
Analysis Using Comparative Structural Equations Models 155

Joyce M. Mercier and Mack C. Shelley II

9. Identifying Older High-Risk Drivers through License
Reexamination 181

Cletus R. Mercier and Scott R. Falb

Part 3 Family Policy and 1996Welfare Reform 203

10. Welfare and Out-of-Home Placement: Implications of the 1996
(PRWORA) Reform 205

Alice A. Thieman and Paula W. Dail

11. Wage Withholding: Its Effect on Monthly Child Support
Payments and Its Potential for Making Child Support a Reliable
Source of Income 225

Steven B. Garasky

12. Housing Policy: Its Role in the Debate on Welfare Reform
245

Christine C. Cook and Sue R. Crull

13. Some Assessment for Future Family Policy Research 261

Maurice MacDonald

Index 279

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agrarwirtschaft • Agriculture • Landwirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-470-29004-8 / 0470290048
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-29004-0 / 9780470290040