Dissertations / Theses: 'Family policy'

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Jančaitytė, Raminta. "Family policy formation in Lithuania." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110704_125157-24018.

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This doctoral thesis investigates the question: what are the challenges of family policy formation in Lithuania? The aim of the research is the theoretical and empirical evaluation of the compliance of family policy with family changes in Lithuania by identifying the problems of family policy formation and ways for their resolution. The content of family policy in Lithuania is analysed in the context of the state-family relationship in the Lithuanian Constitution, conceptual family policy principles defining the object of family policy, objectives and operational trends and integration of the EU operational trends in the national family policy, as well as the system of family policy measures developing possibilities to reconcile work and family life in comparison with system of measures of other European states. The dissertation also presents the analysis of the outcomes of the quantitative research „Attitude to family“ by revealing the socio-cultural context of family policy formation, as well as the outcomes of the experts’ attitude toward the problems of family policy formation and the possibilities for the development of family policy. Finally the dissertation presents the model of a systematic approach towards family policy formation.
Daktaro disertacija siekia atsakyti į klausimą – kokie sunkumai kyla formuojant šeimos politiką Lietuvoje? Darbo tikslas - teoriškai ir empiriškai įvertinti formuojamos šeimos politikos adekvatumą šeimos pokyčiams Lietuvoje, atskleidžiant šeimos politikos formavimo problemas ir jų sprendimo būdus. Lietuvos šeimos politikos turinys analizuojamas šeimos statuso ir šeimos ir valstybės santykių apibrėžimo Lietuvos Konstitucijoje, konceptualių šeimos politikos pagrindų, apibrėžiančių šeimos politikos objektą, tikslus ir veiksmų kryptis ir ES prioritetinių veiklos krypčių integravimo nacionalinėje šeimos politikoje kontekste, taip pat analizuojama šeimos politikos priemonių sistema, sudaranti galimybes tėvams derinti darbą ir šeimos gyvenimą, lyginant ją su kitų Europos šalių priemonių sistemomis. Disertacijoje taip pat pristatomi kiekybinio tyrimo "Požiūris į šeimą", atskleidžiantys sociokultūrinį šeimos politikos formavimo kontekstą bei ekspertų požiūris į šeimos politikos formavimo problemas ir šeimos politikos formavimo galimybes. Pabaigoje pristatomas sisteminio požiūrio į šeimos politikos formavimą modelis.

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Pine, Lisa N. N. "Nazi family policy, 1933-1945." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401876.

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Chirkova, Serafima. "Three essays on family policy." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/35073.

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Ahlberg, J., C. Roman, and Simon Duncan. "Actualising the `democratic family'? Swedish policy rhetoric versus family practices." Oxford University Press, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2879.

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In this paper we examine empirically a key element of individualisation theory - the democratic family. We do so using the `acid test' of family policy, and family practice, in Sweden. First we review the progress of family policy in Sweden since the 1960s, which has expressly promoted an agenda of gender equality and democracy in families, with individual autonomy for both adults and children as one key element. We then turn to family practice, looking particularly at negotiation and adult equality, lifelong parenting after separation, and children's autonomy. While Swedish policy makers and shapers seem to have developed the idea of the democratic family long before the sociologist Anthony Giddens, the results in practice have been more ambivalent. While there has been change, there is more adaptation to pre-existing gender and generational norms.

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Emanuel-Hayes, Crystal. "Policy Addressing Family Presence During Resuscitation." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5324.

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When hospitals became the primary care setting for very ill patients, visiting hours and restrictions related to family presence during resuscitation (FPDR) became common. During medical crises that occur in hospital settings, families are separated from loved ones because family members may impair resuscitation efforts or such efforts might psychologically traumatize family members. Various national health care organizations have endorsed family presence during resuscitation; however, practices preventing family presence persist. This project used evidence from the peer-reviewed literature to develop a healthcare institution policy that addresses family presence during resuscitation. Theories, concepts, and models that guided this DNP project included: (a) theory of reasoned action; (b) family systems theory; (c) FPDR concepts (nurses' practices and beliefs, critical care professionals' opinions, practice guidelines); and the Plan, Do, Study, Act model. A systematic review of the literature was carried out to develop the policy. An interdisciplinary team of 7 professionals was assembled to contribute to policy development using literature from peer-reviewed journal articles. Products developed included the family presence during resuscitation policy and plans for implementing and evaluating the policy. This project holds potential to contribute to positive social change by giving patients and families the opportunity to witness and understand emergency care practices.

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Kitala, Fatuma S. "Family policy in Lithuania : Changes and problems." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-392.

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This study endeavours to make an analysis of the major issues that Lithuanian families are facing. In doing so, it is the purpose of the research to uncover the changes and problems that have taken place in Lithuanian society since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union. The Lithuanian case will be compared with Tanzania and other eastern and western European countries. This helps to identify and understand problems that Lithuanian society and families with dependent children have been experiencing.

The current situation of families in Lithuania is based on traditional model, where men are breadwinners and women are the ones who take care of the households. However, families are undergoing changes whereby, dual model support is taking over, especially to young generation. The two models are functioning in the country but majority of the population prefer traditional model. It is observed that, due to changes and difficulties in life, people have no other way than accepting dual model support.

Families with children are facing problems which hinder them to develop well in life style. Although the family policy in Lithuania provides family benefits to the families which deserve allowances, still children are in danger of lacking proper care and guidance. Families with dependent children have been experiencing poverty at a high rate that the rest of the population. Families with more than three children are more affected than the ones with fewer children.

The analysis of this study has shown how the issue of unemployment affects the raising of children. Many citizens have lost their jobs due to privatisation although on the other hand, privatization has been proved to increase the economy of the studied countries.

This study has also shown that women in Lithuania are more disadvantaged than men. Even if women labour force participation is quite high in Lithuania, still there are many problems. Namely, women in Lithuania have lower wages compared to men; there also few women in the decision making bodies and the parliament. Both Lithuanian and Tanzanian governments have taken measures to encourage women to participate in political arena and labour market. Good relationships within the families have proved to be crucial in good bringing up of the children. The responsibility of bringing up the children is also extended to the relatives.

All in all provision of family benefits is not the only solution but it has to be associated with education to families and community on how to raise children morally, physically and psychologically so that they become responsible adults.

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Ortega-Etcheverry, Ane. "Micro-family language policy at work in a Spanish-English bilingual family." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499077.

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Rowlingson, Karen. "Financial circumstances and family change." Thesis, University of Bath, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268376.

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Gillan, Evelyn. "Influencing family policy in post-devolution Scotland : the policy processes of the family law bill and the sexual health strategy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2584.

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The promise of devolution was to ‘do politics differently’ by creating a more plural, consensual and participative political landscape underpinned by the Scottish Parliament’s founding principles of openness, accountability, sharing of power and equal opportunities. In this context, it might be expected that post-devolution Scotland would provide a fertile environment for fostering innovation in family policy-making. Using a case study approach to critically analyse the policy processes of both the family law reforms and the sexual health strategy, the research uses Kingdon’s multiple streams framework to explore:- - the extent to which devolution has enabled civil society to participate in the policy process - how political activity by civil society impacts on government policy - whether or not devolution has fostered innovation in family policy-making. - who is influencing the family policy agenda in post-devolution Scotland The multiple streams framework offers a useful entry point for analysing the public policy process but Kingdon’s claim for the independence of the three streams of problems, policy and politics is problematic since these were found to be inter-related with a symbiotic relationship between the policy and politics streams. This supports work by Kendall (2000) which found a greater degree of connectedness between the policy and politics stream. The findings indicate that devolution has created a more fluid space for civil society participation in family policy-making but a paradoxical effect has been to increase the potential for interests to clash in the public sphere. And although progressive reforms were implemented in both cases, the formal policy instrument of primary legislation to implement the family law reforms facilitated engagement of a wider range of actors, enabled fuller debate of the issues and provided more checks and balances on the system than the informal policy instrument of the expert reference group used to develop the sexual health strategy. Devolution has not reduced conflict in family policy debates – the family continues to be a site of contestation and in the policy processes observed in one of the case studies, the combined forces of religion, politics and a distinctive media presence coalesced to create a ‘radioactive’ political climate. This had a direct effect on the policy process inside government which in turn, shaped the tone and content of the final policy output raising questions about the extent to which post-devolution Scotland can be regarded as providing a fertile environment for fostering innovation in family policy-making.

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Heim, Darian. "Migrant tongues: justice, language policy, and the family." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396170.

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How do migration receiving states justify that newcomers to their territory have to learn the local language? In addressing four kinds of justifications, this thesis introduces the novel perspective of family life and migrant languages in the debate on multiculturalism and concludes that only minimal “thin” rather than extensive “thick” demands of integration are warranted. First, immigrants' children have a standing interest in their mother tongue in virtue of their interest in a well-functioning family. Second, multilingualism is beneficial and receiving states have an interest in integrating migrant tongues into their policies. Third, prior history on a territory does not provide and adequate justification for the asymmetric treatment of national and immigrant groups. Fourth, the claim that immigrants arrive voluntarily and hence accept to integrate in the receiving states only holds if they have sufficient alternatives. In a world of global inequalities, however, this is not the case.
Com es justifica el fet que els immigrants hagin d'aprendre la llengua nacional del país receptor? Aquesta tesi tracta i analitza quatre aspectes relacionats amb aquesta qüestió i introdueix la perspectiva de la vida familiar i la llengua dels immigrants en el debat del multiculturalisme. La conclusió que s'extreu es que no es pot exigir als nouvinguts un màxim d'integració a nivell lingüístic. En primer lloc, els fills dels immigrants tenen l'interès de preservar el seu idioma matern, per a un millor funcionament en el si familiar. En segon lloc, el multilingüisme és beneficiós, per tant, els estats receptors haurien de considerar les llengües dels immigrants en les seves polítiques lingüístiques. En tercer lloc, el fet que el grup nacional tingui una història més llarga sobre el seu terrirori, en comparació amb grups d'immigrants més recents, no justifica un tractament assimètric. Per últim, l'argument que els immigrants que deixen el seu país de manera voluntària acceptin d'integrar-se al país nou, només té vigència si els immigrants tenen suficients alternatives. Fet que en el món desigual on vivim, no es dóna freqüentment.

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Berger, Maurits Servaas. "Sharia and public policy in Egyptian family law." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2005. http://dare.uva.nl/document/89007.

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Lambert, Priscilla Ann. "Japanese family policy in the 1990s : business consent in the policy-making process /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3130209.

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Brooksbank, Joselyn. "Family Language Policy: Parental Discourse Strategies and Child Responses." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36128.

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Using transcribed data from six Spanish-English bilingual children (1;8 to 3;3) from the Perez corpus in the CHILDES database, this thesis examines Parental Discourse Strategies (PDS) used to influence child language use in a minority language context (Spanish in the United States). PDS (Lanza, 1992; 1997) are situated within a language socialization framework (Ochs & Schieffelin, 2011) and can be viewed as part of the emerging field of family language policy (King & Fogle, 2013; Schwartz, 2010). This study looked at the overall language use, including the frequency and complexity, of English, Spanish, and mixed utterances by each parent and child in the corpus. The presence and rate of use of the PDS was calculated, as well as their successfulness in encouraging the children to use the minority language, as measured by the language of response to each PDS found. These strategies have been placed on a monolingual to bilingual continuum (Lanza, 1992) based on their expected success in influencing a child to use the language preferred by their parent. Results from a descriptive quantitative analysis of the data at the group and individual levels generally support the Parental Discourse Hypothesis, that is, the claim that certain strategies are more effective than others. Interestingly, it was found that the more successful strategies were used less frequently by the parents, while the less successful ones were more common. This apparent contradiction can be explained by conflicting pressure on parents to promote minority language use while also keeping fluid communication and preserving family harmony. This is discussed and further supported by some qualitative observations of child responses within discourse samples, highlighting children’s role as agents capable of negotiating their own linguistic socialization.

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Evans, Janet. "Women and family policy in the USSR, 1936 - 1941." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487346.

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Chapter 1 examines the new family policy introduced in the mid-1930's as perceived in Western and in contemporary Soviet literature. The second chapter is concerned with background information on questions of fertility control and motherhood up to the introduction of the 1936 Decree. Chapter 3 provides background information on marriage, divorce and child maintenance up to the mid-1930's while Chapter 4 considers the provision of child care facilities and the implementation of "protective" labour legislation in the same period. Chapter 5 examines the reasons for the restriction of abortion in 1936 and the extent to which it was implemented successfully in the years up to 1941 and provides an assessment of its possible results, while Chapter 6 attempts to explain changes in the divorce laws and examines the implications of the new policy in practice. The seventh Chapter is concerned with-the reasons for the Government's commitment to expand rapidly child care facilities after 1936, and investigates how thoroughly these promises were carried out, as well as considering how successfully mothers were 0protected' at work by special legislation. The thesis concludes by setting out to determine how much success the new family policy enjoyed overall between 1936 and 1941, establishing the probable reasons for its introduction and establishing its likely effects on the position of women within Soviet society.

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Mainville, Lois. "Québec's Family Policy : an evaluation using regression discontinuity design." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29685/29685.pdf.

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Armstrong, Martha Addison. "Implementation of family policy in corrections : a case study /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487682558442438.

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Wu, Weiqiao. "Family formation in contemporary urban China a state-action model /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1993. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9508273.

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Cooke, Lynn Prince. "The family game : policy, the division of labor, and family outcomes in Germany and the U.S." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404075.

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Tokoro, Michihiko. "A comparative analysis of family policy in Japan and Britain." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323496.

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Wang, Jin. "Essays on family investments, education policy and returns in China." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2017. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842627/.

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This thesis conducts an empirical analysis which explores the impact of parental investment, birth control policy and higher education expansion reform on individuals’ education attainments and labour market outcomes in China. The thesis includes three substantive chapters. Firstly, Chapter 3 presents new evidence on the child quantity-quality (Q-Q) trade-off in China. The primary contribution is the use of a new instrumental variable (IV) for fertility, i.e., local policy relaxation regarding Chinese birth control, in order to establish the causal effect of family size on child educational attainments and health outcomes. The aim is to examine whether having more children in a family has a negative impact on child quality and if the higher education of parents and a larger household income have a positive impact on child outcomes. Additionally, this estimation can check the effectiveness of the one-child policy. The findings indicate that there is a negative effect of fertility on education outcome, and support the prediction made by the Becker and Lewis’ model regarding the Q-Q trade-off for children. However, there is no evidence for health outcome. Secondly, Chapter 4 studies the role of higher education expansion policy in increasing the equality of higher education opportunities. In 1999, government rapidly expanded the number of higher education places available. The goal of this chapter is to explore the impact of family background and gender on access to higher education, prior to and following the higher education expansion policy. The analysis is based on nationally representative data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS), collected in 2010. Cohort-level analysis and a difference-in-difference model were used to estimate how the benefits of the education expansion were distributed. The results show that higher education expansion has not been equally distributed among people from richer and poorer backgrounds. The education of parents remains a strong determinant of educational outcomes among children following education reform. Despite the benefits brought on by the expansion system, such as more opportunities for accessing tertiary education, these benefits have not been distributed evenly among families, geographies or gender. The equality of higher education opportunities remains a difficult task. Finally, Chapter 5 examines the causal impact of higher education expansion policy on labour market outcomes for young college graduates. Large pooled cross-sectional datasets were used from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) between 1995 and 2013. First, the Mincer-style of returns to education for young cohorts were estimated in the 1995, 2002, 2007 and 2013 survey years. The aim was to compare the extent of returns to education among the pre-expansion cohort and the post-expansion cohort, and evidence is found a significant decrease in the returns to higher education of young cohorts. Second, another approach quantifies the effects of educational expansion on labour market outcomes and identifies the distribution of returns to education by exploring a natural experiment. This study exploited variation in the intensity of expansion in college numbers across provinces and applied a difference-in-difference model to estimate the effect of the education reform. The results of the study also illustrate expansion has a negative effect on college graduates’ returns and labour market outcomes.

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Carlson, Judith. "The maternal realm : discourse, policy and the one-parent family." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/83988134-04c7-435d-8dd3-044c88f7fd9f.

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Powell, Caroline. "The political use of "family values" rhetoric." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11282006-111341/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Author's name from thesis t.p. Michael Bruner, committee chair; Mary Stuckey, Merrill Morris, committee members. Electronic text (166 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-166).

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Gillespie, Gill. "The Child Support Act 1991 : what price the family?" Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269640.

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Polaha, Jodi, J. Shore, C. Turvey, E. Nelson, M. Mishkind, and R. Ciulla. "Transformations in Telemental Health Technology and Policy: Implications for Practice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6687.

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Kheirkhah, Mina. "From family language practices to family language policies : Children as socializing agents." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Barn, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-126178.

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combining approaches to family language policy with a language socialization approach, the present thesis examines family interoctions in five bi/multilingual lronian families in Sweden. The foci of the thesis have emerged from viewing and analyzing video-recordings of the families' everyday interactions, interviews and observations conducted during two phases of fieldwork. The thesis explores family - parents' and children's - language practices and the ways they contribute to the construction, negotiation and instantiation of family language policies. Considering children's active role in family interactions, it explores parents' heritage language maintenance practices and children's responses to these practices. In addition, the thesis examinas siblings' contribution to familial language choices and practices. The thesis documents parental strategies aimed at heritage language maintenance and children's bi/multilingual development. Recurrent interactional practices - through which parents attempted to enforce a monolingual, heritage language, context for parent-child interactions - were explored (Study Il. Through such exchanges the parents positioned themselves as "experts", insisting on the child's compliance, whereas the child's (affectively aggravated) resistance was frequent, and the parents recurrently accommodated the child's language choices by terminating language instruction. Such language maintenance strategies at times resulted in explicit and implicit language negotiations, and the child's growing resistance cantributed to changes in parents' language practices over time (Study Il). Siblings' contribution to shaping the language practices and language environment of immigrant families was explored in Study 111. It shows that siblings corrected each other's language use and choices and provided language instruction (in Swedish, English and heritage languages) when language-related problems occurred. By predominantly using swedish, siblings contributed to language shift. The thesis shows how family members' language practices contribute to heritage language maintenance or language shift and to shaping family language policies.
Denna avhandling använder och kombinerar språksocialisations- och språkpolicy-ansatser och undersöker återkommande samspelssituationer i fem flerspråkiga Iranska familjer i Sverige. Avhandlingens material är videoinspelningar av familjers vardagliga interaktioner, intervjuer och observationer insamlade under två perioder av datainsamling. I fokus för analyserna är familjers språkliga praktiker och hur föräldrar och barn etablerar eller förhandlar om familjers språkpolicy. Särskilt uppmärksammas barns aktiva roll i familjers interaktioner och det dynamiska samspelet mellan föräldrars försök att bevara hemspråket och barnens agerande och förhållningssätt. Vidare studeras syskonens roll i familjernas språkval och språkanvändning. Avhandlingen delstudier beskriver föräldrars strategier för att bevara hemspråken och för att bidra till barns flerspråkighet. Återkommande interaktionella praktiker som föräldrar använde för att upprätthålla en enspråkig hemspråkskontext för förälder-barn interaktioner beskrivs i studie I. Studien visar att barnet ofta gjorde motstånd mot föräldrars insisterande strategier. Motståndet resulterade i olika typer av explicita eller implicita förhandlingar. Barnens växande motstånd bidrog till att föräldrarna ändrade sina språkpraktiker över tid och delvis anpassade sig till barnens språkval (studie llJ. Syskonens bidrag till att utforma familjers språkliga praktiker undersöks i studie 111. Studien visar att syskon korrigerade varandras språkanvändning och språkval och initierade instruktioner på svenska, engelska och hemspråken när olika språkrelaterade problem uppkom. Syskonen använde svenska i stor utsträckning och bidrog på så sätt till språkskifte i familjerna.

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Ramsay, Janet. "The making of domestic violence policy by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the Government of the State of New South Wales between 1970 and 1985 an analytical narrative of feminist policy activism /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/724.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005.
Title from title screen (viewed 21 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2005; thesis submitted 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Sabol, Mark Allen. "Federal policy instruments in Even Start Family Literacy Programs : using state level perspectives to understand policy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7523.

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Kochan, Thomas A. "An Employment Policy Agenda for Working Families." MIT Workplace Center, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7310.

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Martin, Lauren Leigh. "TECHNOLOGIES OF APPREHENSION: THE FAMILY, LAW, SECURITY, AND GEOPOLITICS IN US NONCITIZEN FAMILY DETENTION POLICY AND PRACTICE." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/138.

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This dissertation examines how US immigrant family detention policy emerged from reinvigorated border security priorities, immigration policing practices, and international migration flows. Based on a qualitative mixed methods approach, the research traces how discourses of threat, vulnerability, and safety produce detainable child and parent subjects that displace “the family” as a legal entity. I show that immigration law relies on specific kinds of geographical knowledge, producing what I call the ‘geopolitics of vulnerability.’ More broadly, I analyze how current immigration enforcement practices work at local, national, and international scales, so that detention deters future migration as much as it penalizes existing undocumented migrants. Tracing how legal categorization, isolation, criminalization, and forced mobility discipline detained families, I show how detention bears down on migrant networks, defying individualized and national scalings of immigration law. Family detention, like the broader detention system, is authorized through overlapping forms of administrative discretion, and I analyze how the “plenary doctrine of immigration” resonates with ICE’s discretionary authority. Finally, I trace how immigrant rights advocates mobilizes conceptions of “home-like” and “prison-like” facilities, and how ICE reimagined its “residential” facilities in response. Empirically and theoretically, my project contributes the first academic study of US family detention to research on kinship, citizenship, security, geopolitics, and immigration enforcement.

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Lee, Jacqueline. "The whole family approach in policy and practice : the construction of family and the gendering of parenting." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/69695/.

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This thesis interrogates what a whole family approach is in Welsh policy and practice utilising an Integrated Family Support Team (IFST) as the case study. The study examines the construction of ‘family’ in policy, practice and by parents themselves and the impact of gender on practitioner and parental normative constructions of mothering and fathering as care practices. Both the UK and Welsh governments locate their use of a whole family approach within a social exclusion framework that views strong familial bonds as the source of sustainable social capital. Documentary analysis is used to examine the policy construction of a whole family approach and of the target families themselves, as this has implications for the application of a whole family approach in practice and the type and nature of family engagement. To date there has been very limited articulation of the therapeutic process entailed in a whole family approach. Through the use of practitioner interviews this thesis addresses that gap in research. It is imperative to gain an understanding of how practitioners conceptualise and engage with families within a whole family approach as this determines which individuals are included and excluded. This is a particularly pertinent issue given the well-rehearsed arguments regarding mother-blaming and lack of father inclusion within child protection practice. Parental perspectives on the construction of ‘family’, and aspirations for both family life and their own mothering and fathering practices, are explored via analysis of parental accounts and values card-sort statements as recorded (and thereby mediated) by IFST practitioners. The findings from this analysis are that there is a considerable degree of constructive conceptual alignment between policy, practice and parental perspectives on the construction of family, and the gendering of parenting as care practices.

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AAGAARD, Anders Juhl. "Family formation and stability in western welfare states since 1960 : the influence of family and housing policy." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1814/68455.

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Defence Date: 29 September 2020 (Online)
Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, (EUI); Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck, (EUI); Prof. Dr. Melinda Mills, (University of Oxford); Prof. Dr. Jon Kvist, (Roskilde University)
This thesis explains differences in changes to family formation and stability in France, Norway, the FRG and the GDR based changes to family- and housing policy. Focus is on developments from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Previous research has focused on more recent developments from the 1980s onwards. A new conceptualization of family policy is introduced that enables a distinction between policy that alleviate the care giving role of mothers (de-familialization) and policies that intervene more directly in the caring responsibility within the family, aiming for a more equal share of childcare between women and men (de-genderization). Findings show that higher educated women are more likely of entry into marriage, when family policy provides more de-familalization (France, GDR) or de-genderization (Norway). But higher educated women are less likely of entry into marriage in the FRG where family policy remained conservative, forcing these women to choose between family and career. In the FRG where family policy remained conservative, with low support for female employment, married women with low levels of education became more likely of entry into divorce. A difference between women with different educational levels is not observed where family policy has included more de-familialziaiton and de-genderization. Findings for changes to housing policy are less convincing. Soft deregulation of rent control and tenure security has a positive effect on entry into consensual union in all countries, making a two person income household better equipped to cover the cost of rent increases that this change introduced. But results for the influence of support for home-ownership show little effect on entry into a marriage and divorce in all four countries. This may be because the full effect has not manifested itself yet. Extending the time period of analysis may provide more insights on the influence of these changes.

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Foster, Nicola. "Structure and agency in the economics of public policy for TB control." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31228.

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Globally, Tuberculosis remains a devastating disease, despite the availability of treatment. The disease is associated with poverty, and those with the disease incur a high cost of accessing care, while simultaneously experiencing income loss due to a loss in productivity. A key challenge in TB programmes remains the accurate diagnosis of the disease, especially in people who are HIV positive. Diagnosing TB can be very resource intensive and the accuracy of diagnosis is dependent on a range of disease, health service organisation and provider behaviour factors. This thesis seeks to enhance understanding of how the behaviour of healthcare workers mediates the value of TB diagnostic algorithms, and how this may affect the costs, outcomes as well as the economic burden associated with the disease in South Africa. The work presented is based on empirical work done alongside a pragmatic cluster randomized control trial. Empirically, it examines the longitudinal economic burden of TB diagnosis and treatment in South Africa. The discrepancies between the time at which patients incur the greatest cost and income loss, and the available social protection are highlighted. Based on empirical work, a purpose-built state-transition mathematical model of TB diagnosis and treatment was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness, from the perspective of the health service and the patient, of health systems interventions to strengthen TB diagnosis. Recognising healthcare workers as those who ultimately express policies, the behaviour of healthcare workers was included in the cost-effectiveness analysis by 1) using data from a pragmatic trial reflecting routine practice and clinical decision-making at the time of the study; 2) developing a conceptual framework of the relationship between behaviour at decision points and disease outcomes; and 3) investigating how these interactions may influence the value of the diagnostic algorithm. Possible public policy levers to improve TB diagnosis in healthcare facilities, as well as the potential mediators of costs and effects were explored. The thesis concludes with recommendations for further methodological work to expand on the approach explored in this thesis to improve how heterogeneity in estimates of cost-effectiveness is presented to decision-makers.

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Azzoni, Margherita <1995&gt. "From the one to the two-child policy: the policy-making process of China’s family planning reform." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16712.

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Since the Open Letter of 1980, identified as the starting point of China’s strict population control, the so-called “one-child policy” was characterized by variations and exceptions and, over the years, went through a long and gradual process of change. The four administrations from Deng Xiaoping till Xi Jinping carried on family planning with different approaches but in the spirit of continuity, without ever questioning its status of basic-state policy. In 2015, after 35 years of one-childization, a reform that allowed every couple to have two children was approved, marking a major change in the State’s ideology towards population. The policy-making process that led to this decision has been punctuated by a lengthy debate among scholars and birth planning officials on the feasibility of a national openness to two children. Given the increased pluralization of the arena of debate, the process was analyzed using the theoretical framework of Fragmented Authoritarianism. I first described the bureaucratic structure of family planning apparatus, thereafter, defined the political entrepreneurs that shaped the process of change and, finally, compared the issue framing they used to make their thesis prevail in relation with the official narrative. The universal two-child policy was certainly influenced by the demographers’ work and the current situation of very low fertility, despite policy relaxation, confirmed the correctness of their thesis.

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Thompson, Mary Summers. "The social context of family planning policy in highland Chiapas, Mexico." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4587/.

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This thesis focuses on the concept of informed choice in family planning and how numerical and systematic targeting aimed at raising the numbers of contraceptive acceptors fundamentally undermines this concept in highland Chiapas. The Government of Mexico’s policy aims within its Reproductive Health Programme (1995-2000) are to reduce the total fertility rate whilst promoting reproductive health services and family planning choices. Though Mexico has seen a decline in its total fertility rate attributed to increased contraceptive use in urban areas, in rural parts the rate remains high. Consequently, the rural poor, and in Chiapas overwhelmingly indigenous populations, have become a major target of the Reproductive Health Programme. Monthly targets are set for clinics and family planning services are offered systematically every time a woman attends a clinic for whatever reason. Amongst the factors which must be accounted for in assessing family planning provision in highland Chiapas are cultural differences between mestizo providers and the indigenous target groups as well as local economic and political conditions. Presently, the state of Chiapas is highly militarised and under the cloud of a low intensity war precipitated by the Zapatista uprising in 1994. The provision of any kind of health services is difficult under these situations, but more so what one considers the distrust sown between some indigenous communities and the government Who provide the health services. This thesis examines the practicalities of implementing a global policy at a local level and the constraints faced by both providers and intended recipients in the social context of Los Altos. Mindful of the care required in identification most people in this thesis (with the exception of a few well-known academics) appear under pseudonyms.

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Baloutzova, Svetla Venelinova. "State legislation on family and social policy in Bulgaria, 1918-1944." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615162.

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Sansavini, Lisa. "Family language policy in bilingual children education: towards a translanguaging approach." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.

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Il presente elaborato, suddiviso in due capitoli, si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare l'educazione dei bambini bilingue all'interno del contesto familiare, ossia il primo ambiente di socializzazione. Al giorno d'oggi le famiglie bilingue e multilingue rappresentano una realtà sempre più diffusa, e i genitori si trovano spesso disorientanti su quale strada intraprendere per far sì che i loro bambini apprendano entrambe le lingue. Il primo capitolo analizza il concetto di "Family Language Policy" e illustra cinque diverse strategie linguistiche che i genitori possono adottare per crescere il bambino bilingue. Il secondo capitolo illustra invece il concetto di translaguaging, spesso erroneamente associato a quello di code-switching o code-mixing, che consiste nell'utilizzare tutte le risorse linguistiche di cui il bambino dispone nel proprio repertorio bilingue, con l'obiettivo di comunicare. La teoria translanguaging nasce all'interno del contesto scolastico, ma questa analisi vuole dimostrare come essa sia applicabile a tutti i contesti in cui il bambino è inserito, partendo proprio dalla famiglia. Ogni strategia linguistica può essere potenzialmente efficace, purché si adatti ai bisogni specifici di ogni bambino, ed è fondamentale che egli si senta libero di esplorare e attingere dal proprio repertorio linguistico le forme per lui più appropriate, a seconda della situazione comunicativa, dei partecipanti all'interazione, e del messaggio che si vuole trasmettere.

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Kravchenko, Zhanna. "Family (versus) Policy : Combining Work and Care in Russia and Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Södertörns högskola : eddy.se, Södertörns Högskola Library [distributör], 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7480.

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Warren, Lorna G. "Lifelong learning in the family : a new role for further education." Thesis, Ulster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252410.

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Parr, Amanda. "Parental Leave: Policy and Practice." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4382.

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Parental leave is a broad term that encompasses maternity and/or paternity leave to care for an infant. Parental leave provides job protection for workers and may be paid or unpaid, with provisions varying throughout the world. Every industrialized nation offers some form of paid parental leave, with the exception of the United States, whose only federal policy regarding parental leave is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a law that allows eligible workers to take up to twelve weeks of unpaid, job protected leave for the birth or adoption of a child. This research project explored how parents understand and navigate the process of parental leave in the United States, and, using an anthropological perspective, situated these narratives into the overall framework of parental leave policy and use in this country. Data were collected through surveys (N=32) and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with expectant parents, most of whom were expecting their first child (N=20). The results of this study found that parental leave is valued, especially for the purposes of bonding and establishing breastfeeding. Parents were grateful for the length of leave they were able to take, but many would have liked to have a longer leave. Their decisions on whether to use parental leave were shaped by cultural norms relating to gender and worker roles within society, and also the ways in which parents embodied their role as mother or father. Parents also faced a complex situation regarding the availability and accessibility of parental leave within their workplace. While some parents had the option of taking job-protected leave under the FMLA, they did not feel that the leave was accessible, either because they could not afford unpaid leave, or because they feared that taking more leave than what was considered to be the norm in their workplace would have a detrimental impact on their career.

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Sobotka, Tomas. "Fertility and Family Policies in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990." Federal Institute for Population Research, 2016. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5946/1/Sobotka_etal_2016__CPS_Fertility%2Dand%2DFamily%2DPolicies.pdf.

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This paper examines fertility and family policies in 15 Central and East European (CEE) countries to establish firstly, likely directions of cohort fertility trends for the coming decade; and secondly, to provide an overview and analysis of family policies in CEE countries, and to assess their impact on cohort fertility trends. Demographic analysis suggests that the cohort fertility decline of the 1960s cohorts is likely to continue at least among the 1970s birth cohorts; stagnation cannot be ruled out. Births that were postponed by women born in the 1970s were not being replaced in sufficient numbers for cohort fertility to increase in the foreseeable future, and shares of low parity women (childless and one child) were larger than shares of high parity women among the late 1960s cohorts than in older cohorts. Also, childbearing postponement which started in the 1990s is reflected in dramatic changes of childbearing age patterns. As period fertility rates have been increasing in the late 2000s throughout the region an impression of a fertility recovery has been created, however the findings of this project indicate that no such widespread childbearing recovery is underway. For the first time ever an overview and analysis of CEE family policies is conceptualized in this paper. It demonstrates that fertility trends and family policies are a matter of serious concern throughout the region. The following family policy types have been identified: comprehensive family policy model; pro-natalist policies model; temporary male bread-winner model; and conventional family policies model. The majority of family policies in CEE countries suffer from a variety of shortcomings that impede them from generating enhanced family welfare and from providing conditions for cohort fertility to increase. The likely further decline of cohort fertility, or its stagnation, may entail long-term demographic as well as other societal consequences, such as continuous declines in total population numbers, changes in age structures, as well as implications for health and social security costs.

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Blake, Sarah C. "From policy to practice: implementation of Georgia's Medicaid family planning waiver program." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47595.

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The purpose of this research was to examine the implementation of Georgia's Medicaid family planning program, known as Planning for Healthy Babies or P4HB. This program is the first such program to provide both family planning services and inter-pregnancy care services through a Medicaid expansion to low-income, uninsured women. An evaluative case study design was employed using mixed methods. These methods incorporated process measures to study the implementation of P4HB and to assess whether P4HB was implemented as planned We incorporated theory from the policy implementation and health care access literatures to understand what served as facilitators or barriers to successful implementation. Findings suggest that despite precise goals and objectives, formal guidance about the program did not incorporate clear implementation planning. Many stakeholders, including advocates, providers, and representatives from implementing agencies felt left out of the implementation process and did not feel invested in the program. Considerable confusion existed among eligible clients and providers about the nature and scope of the P4HB program. This lack of awareness and understanding about P4HB likely contributed to the program's low enrollment and participation in the first year of its implementation. As many states prepare to expand their Medicaid programs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), this study provides important lessons for policy planning and implementation.

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Wang, Jianglong. "Communicating the policy of "one child per family" in Shanghai an analysis of the family planning groups' communication strategies /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 1989. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9015419.

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Davies, Laura. "Earning and caring in families that have experienced divorce : a study of family law, social policy and family practices." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5048/.

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Much of current welfare policy directed towards the support of lone parents is intended to encourage earning as a primary responsibility for all, regardless of responsibilities for care. This thesis sets out to explore how these policy discourses diverge from or converge with the lived experiences of a sample of divorced or separated parents. The thesis analyses how individuals and their families experience the policy and legal process in the context of increasing levels of welfare conditionality. The ways in which the underlying assumptions inherent in these discourses intersect with the choices and preferences of the participants and their children are explored. In doing so, the thesis investigates the current gaps in knowledge around the potential impact of these policy developments on lone parents, non resident parents and their children as they re-negotiate their family lives post separation. The thesis contends that policy and legal structures could take a much greater account of care as both a practice and an ethic. A more holistic welfare policy model which regards interdependency as positive rather than negative could be fostered if we recognise that human flourishment comes from our relationships with others. I argue that the focus on employment as the primary duty appears to be informed by a flawed understanding both of the complexities of family relationships and of the realities of managing paid work alongside responsibility for domestic and care work as the sole adult in the home.

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Muncey, Lynette Marcia. "Family policy and the Howard government 1996-2002 : the "illusion of choice" /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm9634.pdf.

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Hofri-Winogradow, Adam. "Family property in Chancery : a study in late eighteenth-century judicial policy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443771.

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Hedges-Chou, Jessica Marie. "Institutionalizing labor market dualism : the role of the family policy-VET dyad." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45689.

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The dualization literature looks to explain the institutional underpinnings of cross-class coalitions that support the growth of labor market dualism in Continental Europe, but has little consideration of institutional arenas that critically impact women’s employment. The gendered Varieties of Capitalism framework predicts that in coordinated market economies (CMEs), care-related employment risks attributed to women by the gender division of labor will result in a segregated labor market. The institutional complementarities that facilitate specific skills formation in male workers have distinct ramifications for women workers who are more likely to take time away from work to raise children. In both bodies of work, the gendered characteristic of labor market dualism or segregation is attributed to women’s irregular employment biography, thus taking for granted and naturalizing the gender division of labor. Fleshing out the policies that shape the gender division of labor, family policies as well as the vocational education and training (VET) system are identified in this thesis as a key institutional dyad that shapes the divergent incentive structure for female employment, and subsequently, a gendered dualistic labor market. Family policy and the VET system therefore become critical sites for investigating labor market dualization. The case studies look at changes to family policy between 1980 and 2000 in France and Germany. Using the family policy-VET institutional dyad as a tool for analysis, we observe the impact of this dynamic on women’s increasing rate of part-time work and decreasing specific skills acquisition. The gendered characteristic of dualism suggests that growing labor market segregation does not just result in unequal distributional outcomes in Continental Europe. With the proportion of women active in the labor market increasing, and the lack of family policies distributing care-related employment risks across both male and female employees, women workers and firms employing women face a pro-flexibility incentive structure with regards to training and employment strategies. As CMEs, Continental Europe creates growth and upkeeps a system of social security based on a specific skills labor market and industrial product strategy; a dualistic labor market based on gender thus poses problems for maintaining the specific skills competitive institutional advantage.

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Sheu, Yea-Huey. "Women's poverty in Taiwan : the conflicting and complementary relationships with family policy." Thesis, University of Bath, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263233.

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Milwertz, Cecilia Nathansen. "Accepting population control : urban Chinese women and the one-child family policy /." Richmond : Curzon, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37023631d.

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Rucker, Larra. "The Inclusion of Training on Family Engagement in State-Level ECE Workforce Policy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2019/schedule/32.

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The early childhood education (ECE) workforce provides care and education to young children, birth to age five. Little research examines how teachers are trained to interact with and support families. Policy is identified as a way to increase qualification attainment, however, how policy may best support qualification attainment is widely unstudied. The current study seeks to fill this gap to understand how states differ in order to best support policy advancement. This involves a qualitative policy analysis using emergent techniques for all 50 states. Policies regulating ECE teacher qualification attainment, specifically mentioning family engagement are examined. Results demonstrate that policies regulating family engagement in qualification attainment for the ECE are overall, minimal. Only 30 states include mention of family engagement in policy. This research provides insight into how family engagement is supported in the workforce at a national level, and subsequently, how family engagement is supported throughout individual states.

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Dutton, Paul V. "The salaire vital, family allowances, and the French welfare state, 1914-1940 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9732707.

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