Karen Bogenschneider

Family Policy Matters (eBook, ePUB)

How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition captures the evolving, post-pandemic landscape of family policy-the transformational changes that have occurred within contemporary families and the social, economic, and racial/ethnic disparities that have grown across families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000996906
• Artikelnr.: 69569813

Autorenporträt

Karen Bogenschneider is a Rothermel-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is widely recognized in the United States and abroad for her expertise in evidence-based family policy-studying it, teaching it, and doing it.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Why You Should Care About Family Policy. 1. If You Want to Make a
Difference, You Should Care About Family Policy. 2. Why We Should Focus on
Families in Policymaking, and Why We Don't. 3. Why Do We Need Family
Policy? A Global Rationale. Part 2: The Basics of Family Policy and the
Policymaking Process. 4. To Become a Field of its Own, Family Policy Needs
Fresh Definitions. 5. What are Family Policies Anyway? Who Makes Them and
Who Shapes Them? 6. What Policymakers and the Policy Process are Really
Like. Part 3: What Forces Influences the Formation of Family Policy. 7. How
Much are Families Changing? Have Policies Kept Pace? 8. How Individualism
is Woven into our Families, our Work and Play, and our Policies. 9. How the
Economy Influences Families and How Families Influence the Economy. 10. Why
Polarization Influences Family Policy and How to Bridge the Divide:
Guidance from the Theory of Paradox. Part 4: How Professionals Can Make
Families Matter in Policymaking. 11. A Toolkit for Infusing the Family
Impact Lens into Policy, Programs, and Practice. 12. What Insights From the
Past Can Guide Family Policy in the Future? 13. How to Engage Policymakers
in Family Policy: Best Practices From Theory, Research, and the Family
Impact Seminars. 14. How to Approach Policymakers: The Critical Choice of
Advocacy or Education. 15. Go Forth With Hope to Make Families Matter in
Policymaking.