Children, Changing Families and Welfare States

Edited by Jane Lewis

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Abstract: The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in the broader context of both family change and welfare state change, exploring the nature of the policy debate that has allowed the welfare of the child to come to the fore; tackles policies to do with both the care and financial support of children; looks at the household level and how children fare when both adult men and women must seek to combine paid and unpaid work, and what support is offered by welfare states; and endeavours to provide a comparative perspective on these issues.

Keywords: Development Studies; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845425234
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Children in the Context of Changing Families and Welfare States

Jane Lewis

Ch 2 The LEGO™ Paradigm and New Social Risks: Consequences for Children

Jane Jenson

Ch 3 An Agenda for Children: Investing in the Future or Promoting Well-being in the Present?

Ruth Lister

Ch 4 Child Benefit Packages in 15 Countries in 2004

Jonathan Bradshaw

Ch 5 Paying for the Costs of Children in Eight North European Countries: Ambivalent Trends

Ulla Björnberg

Ch 6 Paying for Children: Current Issues and Implications of Policy Debates

Fran Bennett

Ch 7 Cultures of Childhood and the Relationship of Care and Employment in European Welfare States

Birgit Pfau-Effinger

Ch 8 From a Childcare to a Pedagogical Discourse – Or Putting Care in its Place

Peter Moss

Ch 9 The OECD and the Work/Family Reconciliation Agenda: Competing Frames

Rianne Mahon

Ch 10 Childcare in a Changing World: Policy Responses to Working Time Flexibility in France

Marie-Thérèse Letablier

Ch 11 Work Life Balance from the Children’s Perspective

Ute Klammer

Ch 12 Squeezed between Two Agendas: Work and Childcare in the Flexible UK

Diane Perrons

Ch 13 Men and Women’s Agency and Capabilities to Create a Work Life Balance in Diverse and Changing Institutional Contexts

Barbara Hobson, Ann-Zolfe Duvander and Karin Halldén

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