TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carling,Alan H.
AU  - Duncan,Simon
AU  - Edwards,Rosalind
TI  - Analysing families: morality and rationality in policy and practice 
SN  - 0415250404 (pbk.)
AV  - HQ614. A679 2002
U1  - 306.85 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Families
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Europe
KW  - Family policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. I; Introduction; 1; Family policy, social theory and the state; Alan Carling; 2; A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events; Maria Jose Gonzalez-Lopez --; Pt. II; Perspectives on family policy; 3; Political intervention and family policy in Britain; 3.1; Individualisation, assumptions about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism; Jane Lewis; 3.2; The Family Law Act, 1996; Adrian James; 3.3; The Green Paper Supporting Families, 1998; Mavis MaClean; 3.4; Re-analysing the Black family; Tracey Reynolds; 4; Political intervention and family policy in Europe and the USA; 4.1; Cultural change and family policies in East and West Germany; Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Birgit Geissler; 4.2; Family policy and the maintenance of the traditional family in Spain; Lluis Flaquer; 4.3; Working and caring for children: family policies and balancing work and family in Sweden; Ulla Bjornberg; 4.4; Paternalism, welfare reform and poor families in the United States; Alan Deacon; 5; New Labour, the rationality mistake and family policy in Britain; Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan and Grace James; 6; A third way? Moralities, ethics and families: an approach through the ethic of care; Selma Sevenhuijsen --; Pt. III; Family practices; 7; Sociological perspectives on the family; David Morgan; 8; Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain; Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts; 9; Caring, earning and changing: parenthood and employment after divorce; Bren Neale and Carol Smart; 10; The individual in public and private: the significance of mothers and children; Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Rosalind Edwards; 11; Elective families: lesbian and gay life experiments; Jeffrey Weeks --; Pt. IV; Modelling families; 12; Economic theory, norms and the care gap, or: why do economists become parents?; Susan Himmelweit; 13; The 'balance model': theorising women's employment behaviour; Judith Glover; 14; Computer simulation of family practices; Edmund Chattoe --; Pt. V; Conclusion; 15; Families, moralities, rationalities and social change; Graham Crow
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