Full Description
This work on family duty and how it intersects with policy asks questions such as: to what extent should we be responsible for our children; what is the nature of the debt we owe to our parents; and, how far should the state involve itself with these matters?
Contents
Introduction - family debts, biological liabilities; playing for children - procreation and financial liability; families in need - crisis and responsibility; troublesome children - failure and moral liability; ethnicity, culture and parenthood - policy dilemmas; "burdensome" parents - reciprocity, rationing and needs assessment; constructing the "private" carer - daughters of reform?; "contracting out" familial liabilities; conclusion - the limits of policy intervention.
