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Conceptualizing and Analyzing Family Policy and How It Is Changing

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Daly, Mary·2020·The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_2
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This chapter focuses on the conceptualization of family policy as well as identifying the main trends and policy reforms. The chapter first sets out an analytic framework. This underlines the complexity of family policy and the necessity to see it as relating to both family structure and family-related behavior. The chapter then proceeds to identify major contemporary trends, focusing on three main areas of family policy: income supports for families with children, early childhood education and care and parenting-related leaves from employment. It shows family policy as dynamic and seeking to balance a series of tensions between resourcing families on the one hand and regulating them on the other. At issue is the balance to be struck between continuity in the structure of families, in their economic and social organization and in regard to the relative resourcing of different generations and life phases.

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Authors
Daly, M.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Daly, Mary
Venue
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published
2020
Pages
25-41
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_2
OpenAlex
W3113369171
Cited by
35
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3
FWCI
24.07
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
Springer eBooks (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • H2020 European Research Council (771770)
  • Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • University of Kent
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Stockholm University
  • Ghent Univeristy
  • University of Turku
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Policies and Family
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
Keywords
family policy, family policy reform, family structure, early childhood education and care, parental leave, family regulation

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