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Family diversity and family policy : strengthening families for America's children /

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Family Diversity and Family Policy describes the dimensions of diversity which characterize the contemporary American family and discusses the implications for public policy and associated intervention programs linked to this diversity. The authors contend that if the programs and policies available...

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Main Author: Lerner, Richard M.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sparks, Elizabeth E., McCubbin, Laurie D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1999]
Series:Outreach scholarship ; 2.
Subjects:
Families > United States.
Family policy > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Cultural pluralism.
Families.
Family policy.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The family : historical and contemporary perspectives
  • Child poverty within the ecology of America's families
  • Developmental contextualism and the developmental systems perspective
  • Engaging public policy : the substantive importance of diversity
  • The parenting of adolescents and adolescents as parents
  • The importance of diversity in welfare reform
  • Toward the development of a national youth policy
  • Implications for policy design, delivery, and evaluation.