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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New Configurations -- Notes -- References -- 1. Recent Developments in the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or a Paradigm Shift? -- Institutional Structure and Past Development of the German Welfare State: An Introductory Overview1 -- Adjustment Problems and Challenges -- Adjustment Problems and Constraints -- Old and New Needs and Demands -- Current Issues and Debates -- Changing Views of Solidarity -- Financing Issues -- Allocation Principles: Changing Priorities -- The Pattern of Cutbacks -- New Priorities and New Programs: The New Emphasis on Families and Services -- The Neglect of the Educational Sector -- The Shifting Axis of Benefit Delivery: Welfare Mix and Privatization -- Social Activation and Work-Oriented Policies -- Concepts and Policy Goals -- Policy Changes -- The Redefinition of What Constitutes Work -- Emerging Borders of the Welfare State? -- Theoretical and Philosophical Debates on Normative Issues -- The Scope and Legitimacy of National and Transnational Government -- Conclusion: Towards a New Combination of Freedom and Security in an Enabling State? -- Notes -- References -- 2. Remaking the Welfare State in New Zealand -- Introduction -- Context and Adjustment Problems -- Context: The Social Security Act of 1938 -- Adjustment Problems: Escalating Demands Amid a Climate o f Fiscal Constraint -- Allocation Principles: Changing Priorities -- A Move from Universal to Targeted Assistance -- Downward Adjustments in the Real Rate of Payment of Benefits -- Shifting Axis of Benefit Delivery: Welfare Mix and Privatization -- Accident Compensation: To Market and Back Again -- Pension Reform Rejected: Overwhelming Preference for Retention of Public System -- From Family Wage to Market Wage

The authors present a model of children's responses to their mother's shift in identity from heterosexual to lesbian. Initially, many children react with denial or anger and later respond with bargaining. They may experience depression before accepting their mother as a lesbian. The model is based on information gathered from workshops and in-depth interviews with lesbian mothers. Intervention strategies are proposed to help lesbian mothers support their children's responses and nurture their children's growth toward accepting their mother's lesbian identity.