Title: Analysing families : morality and rationality in policy and practice /
Authors: Carling, Alan H.; Duncan, Simon.; Edwards, Rosalind.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Families Great Britain.; Families Europe.; Family policy Great Britain.; Family policy Europe.
Abstract: The family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy. This text directly addresses the social processes responsible for the changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do.
Contents: Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Family policy, social theory and the state / Alan Carling -- 2. A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events / Maria Jose Gonzalez-Lopez -- Pt. II. Perspectives on family policy -- 3. Political intervention and family policy in Britain -- 3.1. Individualisation, assumptions about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism / Jane Lewis -- 3.2. The Family Law Act, 1996 / Adrian James -- 3.3. The Green Paper Supporting Families, 1998 / Mavis MaClean -- 3.4. Re-analysing the Black family / Tracey Reynolds -- 4. Political intervention and family policy in Europe and the USA -- 4.1. Cultural change and family policies in East and West Germany / Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Birgit Geissler -- 4.2. Family policy and the maintenance of the traditional family in Spain / Lluis Flaquer --^