Full Description
The family is currently a controversial topic both within the UK and Europe. While demographic trends seem to suggest that family structures and attitudes within the European Union are converging and that member states are facing similar social problems, their policy responses are very different. This book examines the differences between these national responses and that of the EU as contained in the social chapter. It analyses the key concepts underlying the formulation of family policy and illustrates it with the latest data much of it hitherto unpublished.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Part One: Constructing and Deconstructing the Family
Statistical Definitions of the Family
Institutional Definitions of the Family
Public Policy Definitions of the Family
Sociological Definitions of the Family
Part Two: The Family-Employment Relationship
Conceptualising Women's and Mother's Employment
The Relationship Between Women's Paid and Unpaid Work
Policies for Women and Mothers as Paid Workers
Part Three: From Social Policies to Family Policies
Family Policy Making in Europe
The Family Impact of Social Policies
Integrating European Families and Family Policies
Bibliography
Index
