Family Policy Matters How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do 4th Edition by Karen Bogenschneider ISBN 9781000996906 1000996905

This new edition captures the evolving, post-pandemic landscape of family policy—the transformational changes that have occurred within contemporary families and the social, economic, and racial/ethnic disparities that have grown across families. The book draws on policies from around the globe to make an evidence-based case for family policy and its contributions to families and to society. Bogenschneider tackles a significant challenge of our times—the polarization of politics—including why it occurs and how professionals can bridge the divide. Beyond the basics, the book provides best practices for turning analysis into action by drawing on cutting-edge research and a point of view often overlooked in policy books—the voice of policymakers themselves. Imbued with hope yet fundamentally realistic, Bogenschneider applies a relationship-based and strikingly nonpartisan approach for those who want to make a positive difference for families, whether they engage local policymakers in towns, cities and counties; state/national lawmakers; or decision-makers in businesses, nonprofits and philanthropy. Accompanied by updated, web-based teaching materials and a family impact toolkit, this is core reading for undergraduate and/or graduate courses in family or social policy taught in human development and family studies, psychology, counseling, social work, sociology, public policy, political science, and education. It is also essential reading for professionals and policymakers interested in pursuing better public policy for families in all their diversity across the lifespan. Ancillaries website for the 4th edition coming soon!

Family Policy Matters How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do 4th Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 Why You should Care About Family Policy

1 If You Want to Make a Difference, You should Care About Family Policy

2 Why We should Focus on Families in Policymaking and Why We don’t

3 Why do We Need Family Policy? A Global Rationale

Part 2 The Basics of Family Policy and the Policymaking Process

4 To Become a Field of Its Own, Family Policy Needs Fresh Definitions

5 What are Family Policies Anyway? Who Makes them and Who Shapes Them?

6 What Policymakers and the Policy Process are Really Like

Part 3 What Forces Influence the Formation of Family Policy

7 How much are Families Changing? Have Family Policies Kept Pace?

8 How Individualism is Woven into our Families, our Work and Play, and our Politics

9 How the Economy Influences Families and How Families Influence the Economy

10 Why Polarization Influences Family Policy and How to Bridge the Divide: Guidance from the Theory of Paradox

Part 4 How Professionals can Make Families Matter in Policymaking

11 A Toolkit for Infusing the Family Impact Lens into Policy, Programs, and Practice

12 What Insights from the Past can Guide Family Policy in the Future?

13 How to Engage Policymakers in Family Policy: Best Practices from Theory, Research, and the Family Impact Seminars

14 How to Approach Policymakers: The Critical Choice of Advocacy or Education

15 Go Forth with Hope to Make Families Matter in Policymaking

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