Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century

Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States. Here, emphasis in family policy is shifted from a centralized entitlement approach to an exchange of personal responsibility, work, and training for better support services.Content: Chapter 1 Family Policy at the End of the 20th Century (pages 1–20): Steven K. WisensaleChapter 2 States' Political Cultures and their Family Policies in the 1990s (pages 21–41): Shirley L. ZimmermanChapter 3 Family Policy in Japan (pages 43–66): Patricia BolingChapter 4 Voices from Below: The Use of Ethnographic Research for Informing Public Policy (pages 67–84): Robin L. JarrettChapter 5 The Role of Child Care in Effective Welfare Reform (pages 85–110): Kristen A. Norman?MajorChapter 6 Policy Implications for the Delivery of High?Quality Infant/Toddler Child Care (pages 111–133): Alisa S. Ghazvini and Ronald L. MullisChapter 7 The Effects of Foster Parent Preservice Training on Parenting Attitudes, Foster Parenting Attitudes, and Foster Care Knowledge (pages 135–154): Sedahlia Jasper Crase, Kristi S. Lekies, Dahlia F. Stockdale, Diann C. Moorman, Angela C. Baum, Amy Moeller Yates, Renee Gillis?Arnold and Kristin Riggins?CaspersChapter 8 Older Americans' Access to Health Care: A Three Cohort Analysis Using Comparative Structural Equations Models (pages 155–180): Joyce M. Mercier and Mack C. ShelleyChapter 9 Identifying Older High?Risk Drivers Through License Reexamination (pages 181–202): Cletus R. Mercier and Scott R. FalbChapter 10 Welfare and Out?of?Home Placement: Implications of the 1996 (PRWORA) Reform (pages 203–223): Alice A. Thieman and Paula W. DailChapter 11 Wage Withholding: Its Effect on Monthly Child Support Payments and its Potential for Making Child Support a Reliable Source of Income (pages 225–244): Steven B. GaraskyChapter 12 Housing Policy: Its Role in the Debate on Welfare Reform (pages 245–259): Christine C. Cook and Sue R. CrullChapter 13 Some Assessment for Future Family Policy Research (pages 261–277): Maurice MacDonald