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Currently, families are being subjected to increasing public attention with interest focusing on their potential strengths and weaknesses in determining how well children do at school. Parents and children are at the forefront of the welfare state and socio-educational activities in current programs and policies. This book examines the resulting changes in the relationship between families and the state, and the shifting borders of public and private responsibility in education, child care, and childrearing. It considers international and national debates that underline the fact that issues in private life are increasingly entering the public discourse and becoming subject to attempts at socio-political control. Finally, it discusses the growing politicization of parenthood in the (post) welfare state and the increasing attention being paid to the structural conditions of gainful employment and child care as well as to the current relations between the genders.

Families -- United States. --- Family policy. --- Parenthood. --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Child care. --- Care of children --- Childcare --- Children --- Care --- Care and hygiene --- Social sciences. --- Medical research. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Social work. --- Quality of life. --- Families. --- Families --- Social Sciences. --- Social Work. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Family. --- Social aspects. --- Quality of Life --- Research. --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Education and state. --- Families—Social aspects. --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Government policy