Welfare and benefit systems

This in-depth exploration uses individual portraits to show what parents face as they love and care for their mentally ill children and cope with how the mental health system has failed them.

Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed resource provides an honest and detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents.

Aspalter 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.

At the beginning of the 21st century, there is a growing global consciousness of the issues affecting children and a commitment to address them.

While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single mothers, welfare queens, who collect public funds but do not work.

Fujimura takes us across history and into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned.

The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor.

At the outset of his second term, President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security has touched off a debate of enormous proportion.

The profession of social work has, since its inception, stressed the importance of the family system in practice and policy development.

Does social work theory and practice give adequate attention to the specific needs of children?

Few days pass without front page newspaper articles about the disarray in the American social security system and the oncoming crisis of exploding costs and imbalance between workers and retirees.

For human resource professionals, labor law specialists, and others involved in the practice of labor-management relations, Lencsis provides a concise, easily-accessed description of the workers compensation system in the United States, its governing laws and also its insurance aspects.

As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children.

Unintentional injuries, including car crashes, drowning, burns, poisoning, and suffocation, are a leading cause of death to young children.

Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly.

Who should bear the financial and social costs of the consequences of crime?

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.

Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary research.

This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter-one of the most basic elements of human adaptation-now experienced by many Americans.

Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera.

Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age.

'The important implications this work has for the teaching profession, for parenting and for society must not be ignored.

This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall.

Expert guidance on exploring and choosing the perfect jobIdeal for college students or anyone ready to go back to school, this series explores specific areas of interest and helps job seekers determine which job in that field suits them.

The Complete Guide to Potty Training Children: New Sure-fire Strategies will show you how to get your toddler using the potty in no time at all.

This volume consists of papers delivered at two seminars of the Fels Institute of Local and State Government at the University of Pennsylvania.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR Why does an international footballer with the world at his feet decide to take his own life?

Why is it so difficult to remain married in thetwenty-first century, and what can you do about it?

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.

The experience of victimization often leaves a child or young person frightened, lacking in confidence, or emotionally vulnerable and they can turn to crime in response to being a victim.

Even the best grounding in the principles of psychotherapy can leave students poorly prepared for actual face-to-face work with clients.

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose.

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose.

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose.

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose.

PART 1 OF 3A family with a dark secret.

PART 2 OF 3A family with a dark secret.

PART 3 OF 3A family with a dark secret.

PART 3 OF 3Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass.

PART 2 OF 3Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass.

PART 1 OF 3Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass.

Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass.

PART 3 OF 3Little Jamey, 21/2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.

PART 2 OF 3Little Jamey, 21/2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.

PART 1 OF 3Little Jamey, 21/2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.

Little Jamey, 21/2 years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency.

PART 1 OF 3After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.