Welfare and benefit systems

In the late 1980s, despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role - in paid work and in the domestic realm - the world of work, the welfare state, and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women's place were primarily in the home.

Social welfare activities stand at the heart of the modern democratic state as they absorb ever-increasing budget allocations and stimulate debate over the proper role of government.

This book summarizes the key findings from Philadelphia Private Industry Council's 1985 customer survey.

First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins.

First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins.

The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.

The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.

In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with.

This book was originally published in 1998, when over 6,000 children lived in residential homes in England and Wales.

This book was originally published in 1998, when over 6,000 children lived in residential homes in England and Wales.

This book was originally published in 1941.

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society's future.

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society's future.

This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and society.

Mental illness in a parent presents children with multiple challenges, including stigma, self-doubt and self-blame, ongoing anxiety and depression, that are rarely discussed in the public domain.

Mental illness in a parent presents children with multiple challenges, including stigma, self-doubt and self-blame, ongoing anxiety and depression, that are rarely discussed in the public domain.

This book looks at innovative tools developed by Japanese and Korean researchers and practitioners to tackle cyberbullying and internet-related problems (addiction, cybercrimes, etc.

The second edition of Deciding Children's Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children in the family court.

This book looks at innovative tools developed by Japanese and Korean researchers and practitioners to tackle cyberbullying and internet-related problems (addiction, cybercrimes, etc.

This volume specifically examines current concerns about imprisoned fathers and highlights best practices with a group of children and parents who present significant vulnerabilities.

This volume specifically examines current concerns about imprisoned fathers and highlights best practices with a group of children and parents who present significant vulnerabilities.

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

FIVE STAR AMAZON REVIEWS for the first edition:Every community practitioner caring for children and families should carry this book with them.

"e;[An] excellent book.

"e;A welcome contribution not only towards the development of advocacy policy and practice with children and young people across the UK and further afield but also towards the wider field of furthering children and young people's participation, individually and collectively in decisions affecting them.

How does residential care in England compare with that of other European countries?

What are the objectives of social security and social assistance provisions?

The principal objectives of this book are to enable childcare workers to understand and deal more effectively with cases of emotional and psychological abuse.

"e;The quality of children's experiences, and the engagement of their parents, particularly in these early years, is critical to better outcomes that will impact on the child right into adolescence and adulthood.

Families need child care more in the 1990s than ever before.

Bringing together many different theoretical viewpoints and empirical findings, this volume provides an up-to-date state-of-the-art report on violence in families.

This book focuses on the Reagan administration's broad attempt from 1980 to 1984 to strike thousands of Social Security disability recipients from government rolls.

Based on open-ended interviews with adult children and children-in-law, this book documents how plain folk from the working and middle classes manage to provide care for their frail, elderly parents while simultaneously meeting the obligations of their jobs and their own immediate families.

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing.

Dreams of pregnancy include the expectation that nine months of waiting will end with a joyous event.

Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare.

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.

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.