Mercier / Garasky / Shelley Redefining Family Policy

Implications for the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29004-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mercier, Joyce M.

Garasky, Steven B.

Shelley, Mack C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 the1990s 21
Shirley L. Zimmerman
3. Family Policy in Japan 43
Patricia Boling
4. Voices from Below: The Use of Ethnographic Research forInforming 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-QualityInfant/Toddler Child Care 111
Alisa S. Ghazvini and Ronald L. Mullis
7. The Effects of Foster Parent Preservice Training on ParentingAttitudes, Foster Parenting Attitudes, and Foster Care Knowledge135
Sedahlia Jasper Crase, Kristi S. Lekies, Dahlia F. Stockdale,Diann C. Moorman, Angela C. Baum, Amy Moeller Yates, RenéeGillis-Arnold, and Kristin Riggins-Caspers
8. Older Americans' Access to Health Care: A Three CohortAnalysis Using Comparative Structural Equations Models 155
Joyce M. Mercier and Mack C. Shelley II
9. Identifying Older High-Risk Drivers through LicenseReexamination 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 SupportPayments and Its Potential for Making Child Support a ReliableSource of Income 225
Steven B. Garasky
12. Housing Policy: Its Role in the Debate on Welfare Reform245
Christine C. Cook and Sue R. Crull
13. Some Assessment for Future Family Policy Research 261
Maurice MacDonald
Index 279