Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Haas, Linda.
2. Wisensale, Steven K., 1945-

Description

1. 398 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Explores the latest research on the impact of government policy - or lack of policy - on family life in various developed and developing nations around the world.

Series statement

1. Marriage & family review, 0149-4929 ; v. 39, no. 1/2-3/4

Uniform title

1. Marriage & family review.
2. Marriage & family review ; v. 39, no. 1/2-3/4.

Subject

1. Families > United States
2. Family policy > United States
3. Family policy > Cross-cultural studies
4. Social policy > Cross-cultural studies
5. Cross-cultural studies
6. Family planning services
7. Social problems
8. Cross-Cultural Comparison
9. Family Planning Services
10. Family Relations
11. Public Policy
12. Social Problems
13. Socioeconomic Factors
14. social issues
15. Social problems
16. Family planning services
17. Cross-cultural studies
18. Families
19. Family policy
20. Social policy
21. Families
22. Sociale politiek
23. Interculturele vergelijking
24. United States > Social policy
25. United States

Genre/Form

1. Cross-cultural studies

Contents

1. Introduction / Steven K. Wisensale, Linda Haas -- Job loss, the family, and public policy / Kenneth A. Root -- Poverty and couple relationships : implications for welfare policy / Parjarita Charles ... [et al.] -- Single mothers and family values : the effects of welfare, race, and marriage on family attitudes / Teresa Ciabattari -- The need for international family policy : mothers as workers and as carers / Sally Bould -- Organizational responses to the fatherhood crisis : the case of fathers' rights groups in the United States / Jocelyn Elise Crowley -- Gender equality and fertility in Sweden : a study on the impact of the father's uptake of parental leave on continued childbearing / Ann-Zofie Duvander, Gunnar Andersson -- Social policy for family caregivers of elderly : a Canadian, Japanese, and Australian comparison / Carol D. H. Harvey, Satomi Yoshino -- The child and dependent care tax credit : a policy analysis / Nicole D. Forry, Elaine A. Anderson -- California's paid leave law : a model for other states? / Steven K. Wisensale -- Birthstrikes? Agency and capabilities in the reconciliation of employment and family / Barbara Hobson, Livia Sz. Oláh -- Gender regimes and cultures of care : public support for maternal employment in Germany and the United States / Marina A. Adler, April Brayfield -- Leave policies and research : a cross-national overview / Peter Moss, Fred Deven -- Seeking the balance between work and family after communism / Steven Saxonberg, Tomás̆ Sirovátka -- Trading well-being for economic efficiency : the 1990 shift in EU childcare policies / Inge Bleijenbergh, Jet Bussemaker, Jeanne de Bruijn -- Family well-being between work, care and welfare politics : the case of Norway / Kjersti Melberg -- The evolution of family policy in Spain / Gerardo Meil.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Families and social policy: national and international perspectives has been co-published simultaneously as Marriage & Family Review, Volume 39, Numbers 1/2 and 3/4 2006."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.