ISBN:
9781560244684
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version American Families and the Future : Analyses of Possible Destinies
DDC:
306.850973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Copyright; Title; Contents; Expanding Choice in Long Term Planning for Family Futures; Introduction; Opportunities and Necessities for Planning; Requirements for Planning; Trends in the Expansion of Choice; Summary; Implications for Research and Theory; Implications for Practice and Professional Education; Foundations for Family Activities in Long Range Planning; DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES; Recent Demographic Change: Implications for Families Planning for the Future; Introduction; Mortality and Life Expectancy; Marriage; Fertility; Divorce and Remarriage
Description / Table of Contents:
Women's Labor Force ParticipationRetirement; Conclusions; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES; Present and Future Health Care for an Aging Society: A Proactive Self-Health Approach; Introduction; Conceptual Model for Self and Family Health Promotion; Overview of Health Care Reform Proposals; Proposed Strategies for Self and Family Health Promotion, Illness Prevention, and Optimum Adaptation to Chronic Illness; Policy and Research Implications; Conclusions; Intergenerational Issues in Long Term Planning; Understanding Long Term Planning and the Need to Plan; Caregiving; Who Gives the Care?
Description / Table of Contents:
Who Is Available?Views and Expectations of Caregiving; Issues in Caregiving; Issues of Choice and Control; Caregiving as a Social Problem; Institutional Care; Medical-Caregiver Relationship; At What Costs Is Caregiving Being Given?; Filial Responsibility; Emerging Legal Issues; Conclusion; Social Programs for Families in Poverty: Past Impacts and Future Prospects; Introduction; Government Attempts to Reduce Poverty; Effect of Government Transfers on Poverty; Reviewing Progress Since 1964; The Reagan Administration and Antipoverty Programs; Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Description / Table of Contents:
Growth in Female Heads of Household and Their Rate of PovertyExplanations for Increases in Female Heads of Household; Female Heads of Household and Welfare Dependency; Effects of AFDC on Family Structure and Behavior; Financial Responsibility of the Absent Parent; Effect of Budget Cuts on AFDC and Other Child Welfare Programs; Increasing the Employment Level of the Poor; Conclusion; Looking to the Future; TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES; Issues of Technology's Possible Futures; Introduction: Nature, Humanity, Technology, and Science; Technology, Science, and Their Values; Reproductive Technologies
Description / Table of Contents:
Work and Family Life TechnologiesWhat Futures?; Technological Change, Sexuality, and Family Futures Planning; Introduction; Four Challenges; Conclusion; FAMILY PROCESS IN SHAPING THE FUTURE; Theoretical Issues in Researching Problem Solving in Families; Introduction; Point of Departure; Definitions; A Taxonomy of Problems; Strategies for Building a Theory of Problem Solving Behavior That Can Help Students of the Family; The Theory-A Discursive Summary; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making as Central Processes of Family Life: An Ecological Framework for Family Relations and Family Resource Management
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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