Handbook of Family Policies Across the Globe
Handbook of Family Policies Across the Globe

Author: Mihaela Robila

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1461467713

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Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers. But despite local and global efforts and initiatives, the state of family policy in different areas of the world varies widely. Through a cross-section of countries on six continents, Family Policies Across the Globe offers the current state of the laws concerning family life, structure, and services, providing historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context. Lucidly written chapters analyze key aspects of family definition, marriage, child well-being, work/family balance, and family assistance, reviewing underlying social issues and controversies as they exist in each country. Details of challenges to implementation and methods of evaluating policy outcomes bring practical realities into sharp focus, and each chapter concludes with recommendations for improvement at the research, service, and governmental levels. The result is an important comparative look at how governments support families, and how societies perceive themselves as they evolve. Among the issues covered: Sierra Leone: toward sustainable family policies. Russia: folkways versus state-ways. Japan: policy responses to a declining population. Australia: reform, revolutions, and lingering effects. Canada: a patchwork policy. Colombia: a focus on policies for vulnerable families. Researchers , professors and graduate students in the fields of social policy, child and family studies, psychology, sociology, and social work will find in Family Policies Across the Globe a reference that will grow in importance as world events continue to develop.

Family Policy in Canada
Family Policy in Canada

Author: Canada. Committee for International Year of the Family

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13:

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This document offers suggestions on the future of family policy in Canada from the perspective of a committee that coordinated Canadian activities of the International Year of the Family. The document registers some concerns relating to a federal discussion paper on social security and focuses on existing programs and the various categories of individuals that make use of these programs. It reviews the committee's activities in partnership with national, regional, and community-based stakeholders, discusses views on families and family policy, and presents recommendations on the need for a family policy commission, research and policy analysis, information and education, work and family issues, and implementation of means to continue the work of the International Year.

Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

Author: Sheila B. Kamerman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780198290254

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This is the first volume in a series intended to report on the evolution of family policies in Western welfare states (and to compare current provisions). The developments are presented in the context of a report on family change for each of the countries, and with a view of the economic, political, and institutional climates in which they occurred. Topics covered in this book include family formation and current structural patterns, families and the division of labor, the income of families (earnings, taxation, transfer programs), and also the political and institutional contexts for family policy. An extensive bibliography is provided.

A Family Policy Assessment Tool for the Canadian Context
A Family Policy Assessment Tool for the Canadian Context

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The policy framework illustrates, in principle, the relationship between children's developmental health, the social determinants of developmental health, and the social and institutional contexts (i.e., family, social networks, and health, education and care services in communities) that underpin developmental health. [...] We would like to emphasize a point that is quite critical to the framework: a common misconception is that "universal" means "mandatory", and that the existence of "quality" criteria for programs and services implies the "sameness" of those programs and services. [...] In fact, the framework aims to convincingly demonstrate that a comprehensive family policy needs to have the resources and the flexibility to provide a combination of universal and targeted programs. [...] The before-tax measure might be considered an indicator of the adequacy of income flowing into the family and the after-tax measure an indicator of the adequacy of disposable income. [...] In the past, the rationale for accepting more children per staff in kindergarten may have been based on the part-day, part-year nature of the programs for the oldest children in the UNICEF range, and the fact that staffing qualifications are higher for kindergarten educators than for those in licensed child care.

Child and Family Policies
Child and Family Policies

Author: Jane Pulkingham

Publisher: Halifax : Fernwood Pub.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The papers in this collection address the changing context of child and family policies which have been ushered in by the Liberal government's Social Security Review (SSR). The contributions analyze the implications of government policy shifts showing how they are particularly devastating for children of low income, welfare, first nations and single parent families. They suggest policy options and some directions that advocacy groups might take in developing a politics of influence.