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Family Shifts Looks At How Families And Family Policies Have Evolved During This Century; How Different Trends Have Affected Families In The Past And Present; How Spousal And Parental Roles Have Changed; How Many Policies Are Based On An Inappropriate Model Of The Family (the Individual Responsibility Model): And How A New Model Of The Family - The Social Responsibility Model - Might Improve Family Policies. Family Shifts Will Be Of Interest To The General Public As Well As To Specialists In Family Law, Sociology, Social Work, Family Studies, Policy Studies, Canadian Studies, And Policy Makers.--jacket. From The Patriarchal Model To The Individual Responsibility Model Of The Family -- Social, Economic, And Legal Trends Affecting Families -- The Blurring Of Spousal Roles -- Uncertain Parental Roles -- Internal Contradictions: Why The Individual Responsibility Model Cannot Work -- From Refurbishing The Past To Abolishing The Family: Three Proposed Solutions -- The Social Responsibility Model Of The Family -- Practical Applications Of The Social Responsibility Model. Margrit Eichler. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [245]-268) And Index.

Author

Eichler, Margrit

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195412505

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences