The State Of Families

Author : Jennifer A. Reich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429674392
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Families written by Jennifer A. Reich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families—and family life—have become politicized. This text explores various dimensions of "the family" and uses a critical approach to understand the historical, cultural, and political constructions of the family. Each section takes different aspects of the family to highlight the intersection of individual experience, structures of inequality—including race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and immigration—and state power. Readings, both original and reprinted from a wide range of experts in the field, show the multiple forms and meanings of family by delving into topics including the traditional ground of motherhood, childhood, and marriage, while also exploring cutting edge research into fatherhood, reproduction, child-free families, and welfare. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the family, The State of Families offers students in the social sciences and professionals working with families new ways to identify how social structure and institutional practice shape individual experience.

Author : Yue Du
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108838359
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Family in China written by Yue Du and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the intersection of politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949.

Author : Julia S. O'Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521638814
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States, Markets, Families written by Julia S. O'Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s have seen dramatic restructuring of state social provision in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This has occurred largely because of the rise of market liberalism, which challenges the role of the state. This important book examines the impact of changes in social policy regimes on gender roles and relations. Structured thematically and systematically comparative, it analyses three key policy areas: labor markets, income maintenance and reproductive rights. Largely driven by issues of equality, it considers the role of the state as a site for gender and sexual politics at a time when primacy is given to the market, developing an argument about social citizenship in the process. Eminent scholars in the field, Julia O'Connor, Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver make a landmark contribution to debates about social policy and gender relations in this era of economic restructuring and deregulation.

Author : Jennifer A. Reich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136075542
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fixing Families written by Jennifer A. Reich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fixing Families, Jennifer Reich takes us inside Child Protective Services for an in-depth look at the entire organization. Following families from the beginning of a case to its discharge, Reich shows how parents negotiate with the state for custody of their children, and how being held accountable to the state affects a family.

Author : Carolyn Barnes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126202
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of Empowerment written by Carolyn Barnes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and reading skills, these programs also have a profound impact on parents. In a surprising turn—especially given the long history of social policies that leave recipients feeling policed, distrusted, and alienated—government-funded after-school programs have quietly become powerful forces for political and civic engagement by shifting power away from bureaucrats and putting it back into the hands of parents. In State of Empowerment Carolyn Barnes uses ethnographic accounts of three organizations to reveal how interacting with government-funded after-school programs can enhance the civic and political lives of low-income citizens.

Author : Meredith Tax
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558611573
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families written by Meredith Tax and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes different kinds of families.

Author : Linda C. McClain
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674019102
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of Families written by Linda C. McClain and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold new book, Linda McClain offers a liberal and feminist theory of the relationships between family life and politics--a topic dominated by conservative thinkers. McClain agrees that stable family lives are vital to forming persons into capable, responsible, self-governing citizens. But what are the public values at stake when we think about families, and what sorts of families should government recognize and promote? Arguing that family life helps create the virtues and character required for citizenship, McClain shows that the connection between family self-government and democratic self-government does not require the deep-laid gender inequality that has historically accompanied it. Examining controversial issues in family law and policy--among them, the governmental promotion of heterosexual marriage and the denial of marriage to same-sex couples, the regulation of family life through welfare policy, and constitutional rights to reproductive freedom--McClain argues for a political theory of the family that embraces equality, defends rights as facilitating responsibility, and supports families in ways that respect men's and women's capacities for self-government.

Author : Naomi Cahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199779468
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Families v. Blue Families written by Naomi Cahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Families v. Blue Families identifies a new family model geared for the post-industrial economy. Rooted in the urban middle class, the coasts and the "blue states" in the last three presidential elections, the Blue Family Paradigm emphasizes the importance of women's as well as men's workforce participation, egalitarian gender roles, and the delay of family formation until both parents are emotionally and financially ready. By contrast, the Red Family Paradigm--associated with the Bible Belt, the mountain west, and rural America--rejects these new family norms, viewing the change in moral and sexual values as a crisis. In this world, the prospect of teen childbirth is the necessary deterrent to premarital sex, marriage is a sacred undertaking between a man and a woman, and divorce is society's greatest moral challenge. Yet, the changing economy is rapidly eliminating the stable, blue collar jobs that have historically supported young families, and early marriage and childbearing derail the education needed to prosper. The result is that the areas of the country most committed to traditional values have the highest divorce and teen pregnancy rates, fueling greater calls to reinstill traditional values. Featuring the groundbreaking research first hailed in The New Yorker, this penetrating book will transform our understanding of contemporary American culture and law. The authors show how the Red-Blue divide goes much deeper than this value system conflict--the Red States have increasingly said "no" to Blue State legal norms, and, as a result, family law has been rent in two. The authors close with a consideration of where these different family systems still overlap, and suggest solutions that permit rebuilding support for both types of families in changing economic circumstances. Incorporating results from the 2008 election, Red Families v. Blue Families will reshape the debate surrounding the culture wars and the emergence of red and blue America.

Author : David William Archard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351760653
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Family and the State written by David William Archard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does the child have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child do parents have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child does the state have? David Archard adopts three areas for particular discussion on the practical implications of the general theoretical issues: education, child protection policy, and the medical treatment of children. Providing a clear legal context and a sharper, contemporary discussion of the question of rights, this book presents a clear introduction to the key issues in the moral and political status of children.

Author : Karen Seccombe
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families in Poverty written by Karen Seccombe and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is a social problem and finding solutions requires us to look closely at our social institutions. This book brings together the most recent quantitative and qualitative data to examine the many dimensions of this problem in the United States.--[book cover].