The State Of Families

Author : Jennifer A. Reich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429674396

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The State of Families by Jennifer A. Reich Pdf

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 : David William Archard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351760652

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Children, Family and the State by David William Archard Pdf

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 : Maxine Eichner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195343212

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The Supportive State by Maxine Eichner Pdf

The family-state relationship in contemporary American theory and public policy -- Theorizing the supportive state -- The supportive state and caretaker-dependent ("vertical") relationships -- The supportive state and ("horizontal") relationships among adults -- The supportive state, family privacy, and children.

Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 029922984X

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An Anarchy of Families by Alfred W. McCoy Pdf

Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country's family-based oligarchy both derives from and contributes to a weak Philippine state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Filipino leaders have fused family, politics, and business to compromise public institutions and amass private wealth--a historic pattern that persists to the present day. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, An Anarchy of Families explores the pervasive influence of the modern dynasties that have led the Philippines during the past century. Exemplified by the Osmeñas and Lopezes, elite Filipino families have formed a powerful oligarchy--controlling capital, dominating national politics, and often owning the media. Beyond Manila, strong men such as Ramon Durano, Ali Dimaporo, and Justiniano Montano have used "guns, goons, and gold" to accumulate wealth and power in far-flung islands and provinces. In a new preface for this revised edition, the editor shows how this pattern of oligarchic control has continued into the twenty-first century, despite dramatic socio-economic change that has supplanted the classic "three g's" of Philippine politics with the contemporary "four c's"--continuity, Chinese, criminality, and celebrity.

Author : Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : OCLC:1391526720

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Families and the State by Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : S. Cunningham-Burley,L. Jamieson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230522831

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Families and the State by S. Cunningham-Burley,L. Jamieson Pdf

How possible is it for the state to steer family values and relationships? How do we assess claims of harm and benefit from state action and inaction? What kind of engagement should we seek between the state and our personal lives? The evidence presented includes state engagements with separating couples, lone parents, retired people, black families, disabled people, pregnant teenagers and young people negotiating adulthood. The range of perspectives, data, and cross-nation-state comparisons, helps readers to come to their own conclusions.

Author : Kristen Stromberg Childers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501726897

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Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914–1945 by Kristen Stromberg Childers Pdf

The state's policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of citizenship and gender in France in the era of the two World Wars. Drawing on new material that has only recently become available from the archives of the Vichy regime, Kristen Stromberg Childers analyzes the ways fathers were promoted as saviors of the nation after France's humiliating defeat by the Germans in June 1940. Childers argues that concern for the family and for the status of fathers in modern France was not merely a response to falling birthrates and German aggression, but was fundamental to the very notion of citizenship and political participation. The debate on men as gendered beings, Childers demonstrates, is central to the political, social, and cultural history of France in the modern age. The father figure became a focus as participants from all classes and across the political spectrum debated what was wrong with the French family and what policies were needed to remedy the problem. Childers examines how these policies were implemented, what they reveal about the development of the welfare state in France, and how they help explain the importance of Vichy in twentieth-century French history. Twenty-eight illustrations, including fifteen photographs, many never previously published, complement her argument.

Author : Lauren Heidbrink
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812209679

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Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State by Lauren Heidbrink Pdf

Each year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody. Yet little is known about their experiences in a nation that may simultaneously shelter children while initiating proceedings to deport them, nor about their safety or well-being if repatriated. Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State examines the draconian immigration policies that detain unaccompanied migrant children and draws on U.S. historical, political, legal, and institutional practices to contextualize the lives of children and youth as they move through federal detention facilities, immigration and family courts, federal foster care programs, and their communities across the United States and Central America. Through interviews with children and their families, attorneys, social workers, policy-makers, law enforcement, and diplomats, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink foregrounds the voices of migrant children and youth who must navigate the legal and emotional terrain of U.S. immigration policy. Cast as victims by humanitarian organizations and delinquents by law enforcement, these unauthorized minors challenge Western constructions of child dependence and family structure. Heidbrink illuminates the enduring effects of immigration enforcement on its young charges, their families, and the state, ultimately questioning whose interests drive decisions about the care and custody of migrant youth.

Author : Carolyn Barnes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131648

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State of Empowerment by Carolyn Barnes Pdf

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 EmpowermentCarolyn 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 : Nicholas Bala
Publisher : Thompson Educational Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 1550771442

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Canadian Child Welfare Law by Nicholas Bala Pdf

Canadian Child Welfare Law: Children, Families, and the State (2nd edition) provides students in social work and law with an introduction to child welfare law. This complex, demanding and important area of law and social work practice receives relatively little attention in professional schools and academic journals. For practicing lawyers and social workers who have not had the opportunity to study child welfare law, this book provides a useful overview of a complex area, as well as serving as a reference work for busy practitioners in the child welfare field. This second edition substantially updates material in the 1991 edition, including consideration of the impact of new legislation and the Charter of Rights. It also includes new chapters on liability issues for child welfare workers and agencies, and on the perspectives of social workers with respect to the legal process. The final chapter offers the personal views of four judges on the challenges that they face in dealing with child welfare cases.

Author : Jyl J. Josephson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0847683729

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Gender, Families, and State by Jyl J. Josephson Pdf

This insightful and original book is the first to examine the relationship between families and the state in the United States, both in theory and in practice, using child support policy as a lens of analysis. Josephson cogently presents the origins, evolution, and organization of federal child support programs and persuasively demonstrates how some child support enforcement policies, rather than increasing women's access to economic resources, expand government and social control over the beneficiaries. Drawing on the literature of both feminist political theory and public policy implementation, Josephson analyzes the impact of family law and social welfare policies through several empirical case studies. This is important reading for anyone interested in political theory, public policy, and women's relationship to the state.

Author : René Moelker,Manon Andres,Nina Rones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429649080

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The Politics of Military Families by René Moelker,Manon Andres,Nina Rones Pdf

This book examines the politics of military families in relation to the tensions between the state, military organization, and private life. It elaborates on the tensions between the advent of challenging worldwide deployment for the military and the prominence of the home front. The volume aims to understand the dynamics of conflict and change within triad figurations at the macro (society), meso (organizational), and micro (family) level and is guided by the following overarching research questions: What are the key issues in the three-party dynamics? What tensions exist in these dynamics? How do actors seek to arrive at a balance? What initiatives for change are made? With contributions from international scholars, who examine the workings of politics in military families at all three levels, the book argues that members within military families deal with shifting power balances and these are impacted by demands from organizations and the state. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, organizational studies and politics.

Author : Jennifer A. Reich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136075544

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Fixing Families by Jennifer A. Reich Pdf

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 : Julia S. O'Connor,Ann Shola Orloff,Sheila Shaver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052163881X

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States, Markets, Families by Julia S. O'Connor,Ann Shola Orloff,Sheila Shaver Pdf

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 : Charleen Chiong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000457117

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Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State by Charleen Chiong Pdf

Focusing on Singapore’s education system from an equity perspective, Chiong’s book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore. The performance of Singaporean students on international education benchmarking tests has been widely recognised. Relatively less known is how socio-economically disadvantaged families negotiate Singapore’s highly competitive, stratifying and meritocratic system. Yet, families’ perspectives can provide crucial insight in understanding how policy is ‘lived’ and experienced, and its effects on people’s lives. Drawing on 72 interviews with 12 families, this book traces the development of surprisingly close, collaborative relations between the state, schools and families on Singapore’s socio-economic margins. It demonstrates that in the 'strong' state of Singapore, families’ dependency on schools and the state facilitates the internalisation of individual and familial responsibility for future success. However, these very processes can injure, and perpetuate inequality. The analysis presented in this book has relevance in other contexts, in times where advanced capitalist states face growing inequalities and challenging relationships between institutional authority and the wider populace. As socio-economic and educational inequalities widen, this book asks timely questions and provides recommendations on what a more equitable state-citizen compact might look like. The book will appeal to researchers and students who are interested in the fields of the sociology and politics of education, social policy, and Asian culture and society.