More Than Kissing Babies?

Current Child and Family Policy in the United States
Herausgeber: Jacobs, Francine H.; Davies, Margery W.

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Produktbeschreibung

This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. It includes an overview of the recent history of child and family policy in the United States; an exploration of several political economic conditions underlying changes in these policies; a historical survey of policies toward dependent children; and case studies of selected local, state, and federal policies. The case study approach helps to discern patterns in successful and unsuccessful policies, clarify assumptions and values that underlie them, and develop evaluation criteria. Policy formation is the focus in analyses of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act; family support initiatives in Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland; and municipal policies for homeless families in Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation. An account of the Massachusetts Day Care Partnership Project concentrates on the third phase of policy analysis: policy evaluation. The concluding chapters stress the importance of considering race, class, and gender in defining social problems, setting policy agendas, and structuring and evaluating policies and programs. They then provide an analytic framework for assessing future responsibilities for U.S. child and family policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780865692237
• ISBN-10: 0865692238
• Artikelnr.: 25598513

Autorenporträt

Margery W. Davies, Francine H. Jacobs

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Epigram Acknowledgments Introduction by Francine H. Jacobs and
Margery W. Davies Child and Family Policy: Framing the Issues by Francine
H. Jacobs Who's Minding the Baby?: Reproductive Work, Productive Work, and
Family Policy in the United States by Margery W. Davies Dependent Children
and Their Families: A Historical Survey of United States Policies by
Cherilyn E. Davidson Congressional Responses to Families in the Workplace:
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1987-1988 by Katharine Karr Kaitin
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of Family Support Programs by
Bonnie Hausman Municipal Policies for Homeless Families by Priscilla M. D.
Little Selective Non-Treatment of Handicapped Newborns: Implementation of
the Baby Doe Laws of 1984 by Martha Pott AIDS Education in the Cambridge
Public Schools: An Implementation Study by Robert B. Griffith A Season in
the Sun: The Massachusetts Day Care Partnership Project by Lucy Hudson and
Susan Latts Vlodaver Considering Race, Class, and Gender in Child and
Family Policy by Margery W. Davies and Francine H. Jacobs On the Eve of a
New Millennium by Francine H. Jacobs and Margery W. Davies Bibliography
Index