ISBN:
9780582247673
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Families and Family Policies in Europe
DDC:
306.85094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The family is currently a controversial topic both within the UK and Europe. While demographic trends seem to suggest that family structures and attitudes within the European Union are converging and that member states are facing similar social problems, their policy responses are very different. This book examines the differences between these national responses and that of the EU as contained in the social chapter. It analyses the key concepts underlying the formulation of family policy and illustrates it with the latest data much of it hitherto unpublished
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Key for figures; Preface; Part One Constructing and Deconstructing the Family; 1 Statistical definitions of the family; Statistical sources and conventions; Concepts and definitions; Trends in family and household composition and structure; Statistical comparisons of family and household structures; 2 Institutional definitions of the family; The constitutional status of families; The family in law; The public or private family; 3 Public policy definitions of the family; Public policy actors
Description / Table of Contents:
Defining the family in tax lawThe ''benefit'' family; Public policy recognition of families; 4 Sociological definitions of the family; The family as a social phenomenon; Sociological interest in the family; Socially constructed families; Part Two The Family-Employment Relationship; 5 Conceptualising women''s and mothers'' employment; Statistical definitions of the labour force; Measuring female economic activity; Interpreting statistical data; 6 The relationship between women''s paid and unpaid work; Sociological analysis of the family-employment relationship
Description / Table of Contents:
Household strategies for combining employment and family lifeRe-assessing the relationship between paid and unpaid work; 7 Policies for women and mothers as paid workers; The ED policy agenda for women as mothers; National policies for reconciling family and employment; Assessing national policies for combining family life and employment; Part Three From Social Policies to Family Policies; 8 Family policy making in Europe; Defining and conceptualising family policy; Family policy objectives; Family policies and concepts of welfare; 9 The family impact of social policies
Description / Table of Contents:
The impact of family policies on familiesThe impact of social policies on families; The effectiveness of family impact policies; 10 Integrating European families and family policies; Towards European family models; Diverging national family policy-making contexts; Towards European integration of families and family policies?; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
