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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Bogenschneider, Bogenschneider Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415844475
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84447-5
• No. of pages: 462
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Sociology: family & relationships, Child & developmental psychology, Social issues & processes, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social and ethical issues, Sociology: family and relationships