The Family In Postindustrial America: Some Fundamental Perceptions For Public Policy Development

The authors suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks may be better accomplished.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The authors of this book argue that traditional public policy towards the family has resulted in a fragmented array of mechanical programs designed to address perceived dysfunctions in family performance. This policy has been biased by a restrictive perception that families, unlike the nuclear, two-parent household, are either ailing or aberrant. In response to these observations, the authors portray the family as a natural, ongoing, and dynamically adaptive element of Western civilization. They suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks, such as child care, education, health, disability and unemployment insurance, social security, and the welfare of the aged, can be better accomplished.

The authors argue that traditional public policy towards the family has resulted in a fragmented array of mechanical programs designed to address perceived dysfunctions in family performance. This policy has been biased by a restrictive perception that families, unlike the nuclear, two-parent household, are either ailing or aberrant. In response to these observations, the authors portray the family as a natural, ongoing, and dynamically adaptive element of Western civilization. They suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks, such as child care, education, health, disability and unemployment insurance, social security, and the welfare of the aged, can be better accomplished.

The authors argue that traditional public policy towards the family has resulted in a fragmented array of mechanical programs designed to address perceived dysfunctions in family performance. This policy has been biased by a restrictive perception that families, unlike the nuclear, two-parent household, are either ailing or aberrant. In response to these observations, the authors portray the family as a natural, ongoing, and dynamically adaptive element of Western civilization. They suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks, such as child care, education, health, disability and unemployment insurance, social security, and the welfare of the aged, can be better accomplished.

The authors argue that traditional public policy towards the family has resulted in a fragmented array of mechanical programs designed to address perceived dysfunctions in family performance. This policy has been biased by a restrictive perception that families, unlike the nuclear, two-parent household, are either ailing or aberrant. In response to these observations, the authors portray the family as a natural, ongoing, and dynamically adaptive element of Western civilization. They suggest that legislators and policy analysts should view the household as a tangible social and economic asset and an appropriate technology with which a number of tasks, such as child care, education, health, disability and unemployment insurance, social security, and the welfare of the aged, can be better accomplished.

Weight: 280g
ISBN-13: 9780367307523