Investing in Children: Public Commitment in Twenty‐one Industrialized Countries
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 239-263
ISSN: 1537-5404
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In: Social service review: SSR, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 239-263
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 69-84
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Social policy and administration, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 69-84
ISSN: 1467-9515
A repeated theme, characterizing US social policies toward children and their families, is that the US has no explicit family policy, nor does it have a coherent package of social policies that are targeted on children and their families. Nonetheless, there is general agreement that the US does have policies that have consequences for children and their families, and that many of these might constitute 'implicit' family policies. However, these policies tend to be limited in scale, coverage, and generosity and are usually categorical and narrowly focused. They lack the comprehensiveness and universality of policies in other advanced industrialized countries. Furthermore, the US has consistently invested a significantly smaller share of GDP in children and their families than almost all the other such countries. One consequence is that the situation of children in the US seems to be much worse than that of children in other advanced industrialized countries. In more recent years, however, there have been some efforts at improving child and family policies and the story now is a mixed one—but there remain major deficits in our policies and programs. Fortunately, children's issues are emerging on the national policy agenda. In this article, we describe current US child and family policies, touch on earlier history for context, and discuss the issues facing the US as we enter the twenty‐first century. Ultimately, we need to confront the question of what can be done now to advance the children's cause on the national agenda.
In: Polis: ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 77-99
ISSN: 1120-9488
In: The future of children: a publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 39
ISSN: 1550-1558
In: Families in society: the journal of contemporary human services, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 165-171
ISSN: 1945-1350
In: Review of policy research, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 581-598
ISSN: 1541-1338
"Family Policy" is a term that is used increasingly in the U.S. to describe policies affecting children and their families. In this article, the authors focus on whether societal learning has occurred across the Atlantic with regard to family policy and what, if anything, the U.S. has learned or borrowed from Europe. The authors conclude that there has been some borrowing, albeit modest; currently, some of that learning is reflected in an expanding child policy debate.
In: Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 84
In: Policy studies review: PSR, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 581
ISSN: 0278-4416
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 277-280
ISSN: 1545-6846
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 644-644
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 448-464
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 506-512
ISSN: 1545-6846
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 181-186
ISSN: 1545-6846
In: The Handbook of Social Policy, S. 543-556