Handbook of family policies across the globe / Mihaela Robila, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robila, Mihaela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family policy.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Science, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Family Policies across the Globe: Development, Implementation and Assessment

II. Family Policies in Africa

Toward Sustainable Family Policies in Sierra Leone: Developments and Recommendations

Public Policy and Families in Kenya

Child and Family-focused Policy in Botswana

Family Policy in South Africa

III. Europe

Family Policies in Norway Families and Family Policies in Sweden

Family Policies –The Case of Iceland

Family Policy in Ireland

Family Policy in Germany

Family Patterns of Change in Italy: Challenges, Conflicts, Policies and Practices

Family Policies in Spain

Family Policies in Portugal

Family Policies in Moldova

Family Policy in Russia: Folkways versus State-ways Revisited

For Whose Sake Is It Anyway? Evaluation of Explicit Family Policies in Turkey

IV. Family Policies in Asia

Family Policy in China: A Snapshot of 1950-2010

Family Policy in Taiwan: Development, Implementation, and Assessment

Family in India: Problems and Policies

Family policy in South Korea: Development, Implementation and Evaluation

Policy Responses to Population Declining Society: Development and Challenges of Family Policies in Japan

V. Australia

Reform, Revolution and Lingering Effects: Family Policies in Australia.VI. North America

Canada's Patchwork Policy: Family Policy in the Canadian Context

Romantic/Marit al, Parental and Familial Relationship Policies in the United States

Families and Policies in Mexico

The Commonwealth Caribbean: Family Policy in the Caribbean Community

South America

Family Policy in Colombia: A Focus on Policies for Vulnerable Families

Family Policies in Ecuador: A Call for Explicit Family Policies

Family Policies in Brazil.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4614-6771-3