Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century

Copyright © 2000 Iowa State University Press

Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century

Editor(s): Joyce M. Mercier, Steven B. Garasky, Mack C. Shelley

Published Online: 11 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780813825908

Online ISBN: 9780470290156

DOI: 10.1002/9780470290156

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xxv)

  2. Part 1: Perspectives on Contemporary Family Policy

    1. Chapter 1

      Family Policy at the End of the 20th Century (pages 1–20)

      Steven K. Wisensale

    2. Chapter 2

      States' Political Cultures and their Family Policies in the 1990s (pages 21–41)

      Shirley L. Zimmerman

    3. Chapter 3

      Family Policy in Japan (pages 43–66)

      Patricia Boling

    4. Chapter 4

      Voices from Below: The Use of Ethnographic Research for Informing Public Policy (pages 67–84)

      Robin L. Jarrett

  3. Part 2: Family Policy Across the Life Cycle

    1. Chapter 5

      The Role of Child Care in Effective Welfare Reform (pages 85–110)

      Kristen A. Norman-Major

    2. Chapter 6

      Policy Implications for the Delivery of High-Quality Infant/Toddler Child Care (pages 111–133)

      Alisa S. Ghazvini and Ronald L. Mullis

    3. Chapter 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, Renée Gillis-Arnold and Kristin Riggins-Caspers

    4. Chapter 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. Shelley

    5. Chapter 9

      Identifying Older High-Risk Drivers Through License Reexamination (pages 181–202)

      Cletus R. Mercier and Scott R. Falb

  4. Part 3: Family Policy and 1996 Welfare Reform

    1. Chapter 10

      Welfare and Out-of-Home Placement: Implications of the 1996 (PRWORA) Reform (pages 203–223)

      Alice A. Thieman and Paula W. Dail

    2. Chapter 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. Garasky

    3. Chapter 12

      Housing Policy: Its Role in the Debate on Welfare Reform (pages 245–259)

      Christine C. Cook and Sue R. Crull

    4. Chapter 13

      Some Assessment for Future Family Policy Research (pages 261–277)

      Maurice MacDonald

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      Index (pages 279–286)

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