The Politics of the Family

by Jones, Helen; Millar, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781859720868
• ISBN10: 1859720862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Avebury

Table of Contents

Figures and tables	ix	(2)
Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Helen Jones
Jane Millar
1 Back to the family: family policies and politics under the Major government	11	(22)
Ruth Lister
2 Families and family policies in transition: the case of post-unification Germany	33	(12)
Ilona Ostner
3 Poor mothers and absent fathers: support for lone parents in comparative perspective	45	(20)
Jane Millar
4 The Child Support Act: a victory for women?	65	(18)
Fran Wasoff
Sue Morris
5 Housing and post-divorce parenting	83	(20)
Peter McCarthy
6 Teenage motherhood then and now: a comparison of the pattern and outcomes of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales in the 1960s and 1980s	103	(26)
Peter Selman
7 Black families and social security: evidence from fieldwork in Leeds	129	(16)
Lan Law
Alan Deacon
Carl Hylton
Alyas Karmani
8 Fetishizing the family: the construction of the informal carer	145	(22)
Hartley Dean
Di Thompson
9 Money, care and consumption: families in the new mixed economy of social care	167	(22)
John Baldock
Clare Ungerson
10 Exploring dominant ideologies and disability: masculinity, marriage and money	189	(22)
Gillian Reynolds
11 Generations, Inheritance and policy relevant research	211
Janet Finch