Summary
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The Second Edition of Understanding Family Policy continues to provide the conceptual framework, offered in the First Edition, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. Features new to this edition include: new theoretical frameworks and their applications; an update of the recent history of family policy; a reinforcement of the link between theory and the everyday life experiences people have with the policy process; and study questions and a glossary.
Family Trends in Context
Family Trends in Context
This chapter broadly examines U.S. history since the 1930s and focuses primarily on the social, political, and economic developments that help place the family trends reported in Chapter 2 within a historical context. Any history summons major population and social trends in the domain of social policies and programs that impact family policy. This discussion begins with the Great Depression, moves on to the postwar years of expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, to the years of economic slowdown in the 1970s, and their culmination in the 1980 White House Conferences on Families. It is followed by a discussion of the Reagan years, the 1980s and early 1990s, and the transition to the Clinton administration. Emphasis is placed ...
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