Redefining Family Policy Implications for the

Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States. Here, emphasis in family policy is shifted from a centralized entitlement approach to an exchange of personal responsibility, work, and training for better support services.

Joyce M. Mercier is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.

Steven B. Garasky is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.

Mack C. Shelley, II is the editor of Redefining Family Policy: Implications for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.

Foreword

vii

Jacques Lempers

Acknowledgments

x

Introduction: The Need to Redefine Family Policy

xi

Joyce M. Mercier

Steven B. Garasky

Contributors

xxiii

PART 1 Perspectives on Contemporary Family Policy

1

(84)

Family Policy at the End of the 20th Century

3

(18)

Steven K. Wisensale

States' Political Cultures and Their Family Policies in the 1990s

21

(22)

Shirley L. Zimmerman

Family Policy in Japan

43

(24)

Patricia Boling

Voices from Below: The Use of Ethnographic Research for Informing Public Policy

67

(18)

Robin L. Jarrett

PART 2 Family Policy Across the Life Cycle

85

(118)

The Role of Child Care in Effective Welfare Reform

87

(24)

Kristen A. Norman-Major

Policy Implications for the Delivery of High-Quality Infant/Toddler Child Care

111

(24)

Alisa S. Ghazvini

Ronald L. Mullis

The Effects of Foster Parent Preservice Training on Parenting Attitudes, Foster Parenting Attitudes, and Foster Care Knowledge

135

(20)

Sedahlia Japer Crase

Kristi S. Lekies

Dahlia F. Stockdale

Diann C. Moorman

Angela C. Baum

Amy Moeller Yates

Renee Gillis-Arnold

Kristin Riggins-Caspers

Older Americans' Access to Health Care: A Three Cohort Analysis Using Comparative Structural Equations Models

155

(26)

Joyce M. Mercier

Mack C. Shelley II

Identifying Older High-Risk Drivers through License Reexamination

181

(22)

Cletus R. Mercier

Scott R. Falb

PART 3 Family Policy and 1996 Welfare Reform

203

(76)

Welfare and Out-of-Home Placement: Implications of the 1996 (PRWORA) Reform

205

(20)

Alice A. Thieman

Paula W. Dail

Wage Withholding: Its Effect on Monthly Child Support Payments and Its Potential for Making Child Support a Reliable Source of Income

225

(20)

Steven B. Garasky

Housing Policy: Its Role in the Debate on Welfare Reform

245

(16)

Christine C. Cook

Sue R. Crull

Some Assessment for Future Family Policy Research

261

(18)

Maurice MacDonals

Index

279

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Redefining Family Policy Implications for the 21st Century

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