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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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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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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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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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It includes educational, legal, nursing, medical, psychological, and social work perspectives and principles, and practice for team development.

Chapter 1 discusses the history of multidisciplinary teams in child welfare services.

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This reference offers a comprehensive overview of public policies and programs related to child care in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and North America.

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This important new source provides greater insight into and awareness of housing experiences in other societies, allowing for a more informed assessment of our own national experiences and priorities.

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Ben-Arieh and Gal draw together a collection of original essays by leading researchers on issues of major importance to all welfare states, alongside a special focus on developments in the Israeli welfare state.

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This book explores the sources of the problems in the child welfare system, places those problems in their historical, legal, and policy perspectives, and explores the implications of policies for state and national levels.

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Analyzing federal involvement in residential segregation, this book examines how the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons.