A 1990s compendium of important issues and cases relating to child and family policy, one of the foremost areas of public policy concern in the United States today.
Dedication Epigram Acknowledgments Introduction by Francine H. Jacobs and Margery W. Davies Child and Family Policy: Framing the Issues by Francine H. Jacobs Who's Minding the Baby?: Reproductive Work, Productive Work, and Family Policy in the United States by Margery W. Davies Dependent Children and Their Families: A Historical Survey of United States Policies by Cherilyn E. Davidson Congressional Responses to Families in the Workplace: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1987-1988 by Katharine Karr Kaitin Policy Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of Family Support Programs by Bonnie Hausman Municipal Policies for Homeless Families by Priscilla M. D. Little Selective Non-Treatment of Handicapped Newborns: Implementation of the Baby Doe Laws of 1984 by Martha Pott AIDS Education in the Cambridge Public Schools: An Implementation Study by Robert B. Griffith A Season in the Sun: The Massachusetts Day Care Partnership Project by Lucy Hudson and Susan Latts Vlodaver Considering Race, Class, and Gender in Child and Family Policy by Margery W. Davies and Francine H. Jacobs On the Eve of a New Millennium by Francine H. Jacobs and Margery W. Davies Bibliography Index
FRANCINE H. JACOBS is Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University. She is co-editor of Evaluating Family Programs (1988).
MARGERY W. DAVIES is Research Associate at the Center for Applied Child Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Administrator of the Community Health Program, both at Tufts University. She is the author of Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930 (1982).
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