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Family Policy Matters - How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do

English · Hardback

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Part 1: The Rationale for Family Policymaking 1. From the Reluctant Student to Passionate Proponent: How Youth have Used Family Policy to Change the World 2. Why We Should Focus on Families in Policymaking, and Why We Don't 3. Defining Family Policy: An Identity of Its Own 4. Policies and Practices Biased Toward Individual Rights over Family Responsibilities 5. How Families Support Society and How Societies Support Families: A Global View 6. How Society Shapes Families: A U.S. View Part 2: Viewing Policies and Programs through the Family Impact Lens 7. Families as a Legitmate Focus on Public Policy: Yesterday and Today 8. How Current Policy Issues can Benefit from the Family Impact Lens Part 3: Using Theory and Practice to Advance Enduring Family Policy in the 21st Century 9. Bridging Controversy and Building Consensus: The Theory of Paradox 10. Looking Back to Move Forward: Lessons from the History of Family Policy Part 4: Strategies for Getting Involved in Family Policymaking 11. What Policymakers and the Policy Process are Really Like 12. Building Family-Focused Policy: The Family Impact Lens Toolkit 13. Building Evidence-Based Family Policy: Insights from the Family Impact Seminars 14. Deciding What You Can Do: Careers in Family Policy 15. Approaches for Getting Involved in Family Policy: Advocacy or Education 16. Making Family Policy Matter: Moving from Analysis to Action


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Karen Bogenschneider is a Rothermel-Bascom Professor of Human Ecology and a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a Family Policy Specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Extension.


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