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Useful for newcomers to the children's library staff as well as longtime children's librarians, the second edition of this popular handbook provides easy-to-follow instructions to make innovations in children's library materials work for you.

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Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America.

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Recently, many political voices have indicated a strong desire to track down absent fathers who have absconded without fulfilling child support obligations to their biological or adopted children.

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Based upon Crawford's extensive survey of more than 300 U.S. businesses, this book explores and describes in detail the various types of employee benefits policies designed to ease the burdens of employees caught between the conflicting demands of work and the need to provide care for dependent children and/or parents.

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This work asserts that the belief that the development of high-standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world.

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The growing prominence of ecological and social systems perspectives in the child development and family studies fields is having an impact on the conceptualization and delivery of early intervention services. This text brings together the conceptual and empirical work of scholars in the field.

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Bill Clinton's first presidential term was a period of extraordinary change in policy toward low-income families. In 1993 Congress enacted a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families.

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A practical guide that helps Early Years practitioners to engage fathers in their child's wellbeing. It provides practitioners with: strategies for recruiting, engaging and retaining fathers; evaluation techniques to develop work with fathers over time; evidence on father involvement; and, policy frameworks and their impact on practice.

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Today in the United States there is a lack of consensus about what constitutes ethical practice in adoption. Adoption specialists and professionals are unsure about how to serve the best interests of children who need to be adopted, and how birth parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees ought to be served.

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Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force. It should be no surprise that child care is one of the most serious and widespread concerns of parents today.

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This work is the most comprehensive volume to focus on new directions in professional practice with families of people with mental illness.

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Bringing together many different theoretical viewpoints and empirical findings, this volume provides an up-to-date state-of-the-art report on violence in families. Included are in-depth analyses of child, spouse, and parent abuse, sibling violence, and sexual abuse.

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The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor.

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The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. This history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s.

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It is also the only one to propose an entirely new structure for the child welfare system.

For Reasons of Poverty begins with a historical review of child welfare through the twentieth century and then examines the crusade against child abuse.

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Gated communities are a new ""hot button"" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders.

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This book explores the relationship between growth management and smart growth and affordable housing in depth. It draws from material presented at a symposium on these subjects held at the Brookings Institution in May 2003.

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Because housing is a multidisciplinary, fragmented field of research, investigators are faced with the difficult task of pulling together information scattered in a wide variety of narrowly focused sources.

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Other examined matters include family background, duration of homelessness, shelter and social needs, socioeconomic causes, and the demands of the homeless issue on national policy.

This work provides a unique sociological and demographic perspective on the problems of homelessness.

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Other examined matters include family background, duration of homelessness, shelter and social needs, socioeconomic causes, and the demands of the homeless issue on national policy.

This work provides a unique sociological and demographic perspective on the problems of homelessness.

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This work focuses on housing in Eastern Europe following the political changes of the early 1990s. The book analyses the fundamental changes taking place as the housing systems, together with their supporting financial institutions and building industries are privatised.

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With the aid of a rigorous methodology, In the Business of Child Care surpasses the traditional descriptive account of child care to provide theoretical discussions on the business of child care assistance.

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