书目名称 | Family Diversity and Family Policy: Strengthening Families for America’s Children |
编辑 | Richard M. Lerner,Elizabeth E. Sparks,Laurie D. Mc |
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丛书名称 | International Series in Outreach Scholarship |
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描述 | .Family Diversity and Family Policy. describes thedimensions of diversity which characterize the contemporary Americanfamily and discusses the implications for public policy and associatedintervention programs linked to this diversity. The authors contendthat if the programs and policies available to support families are tobe most useful, they need to reflect the diversity of the familiesthey intend to help. .Beginning with a discussion of the historical and contemporary contextof the American family, .Family Diversity and Family Policy.focuses on child poverty and argues that this topic may be usefullystudied within the context of developmental systems theory. Thistheory systematically links the development of individuals tovariations in their physical and social ecology, and is used as aframework for discussing: ..Contemporary challenges faced by parents chargedwith rearing adolescents, and the familial and societal issues thatarise when the adolescents being reared are parentsthemselves...Current policy issues that arise from welfare debatesin the United States and from recently-enacted welfare reformlegislation...The importance for our nation of developing acomprehensive nation |
出版日期 | Book 1999 |
关键词 | Institution; Intervention; Policy; development; family policy; poverty; research; systems theory; psychophar |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5206-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-5098-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-5206-9Series ISSN 1566-7081 |
issn_series | 1566-7081 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 |