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Families and social policy : national and international perspectives / Linda Haas, Steven K. Wisensale, editors.

Other author/creatorHaas, Linda.
Other author/creatorWisensale, Steven K., 1945-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBinghamton, NY : Haworth Press, ©2006.
Description398 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Series Marriage & family review ; v. 39, no. 1/2-3/4, 0149-4929 ;
Marriage & family review ; v. 39, no. 1/2-3/4. ^A508591
Contents 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.
General note"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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Marriage & family review.
LCCN 2006011437
ISBN0789032392 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780789032393 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN0789032406 (soft cover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780789032409 (soft cover : alk. paper)

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