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One of the most important trends was the shift in the historical conception of the male as the breadwinner and the female as the homemaker. Divorce was made easier to obtain. In 1969, Parliament passed the Divorce Reform Act, which established the no-fault divorce; the effect of these and other change was the increase of divorce from 2.1 out of ...
At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980). Elder Jr, Glen H. "History and the family: The discovery of complexity." Journal of Marriage and the Family (1981): 489-519. online; Gutman, Herbert G. The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 (Vintage, 1977). Hareven, Tamara K.
American conservative groups have made inroads promoting these policies in Africa since the early 2000s, describing them as African family values. [6] The phrase family values originated with the 1992 Republican National Convention, for their "Family Values Night", featuring Barbara Bush as the keynote speaker. In the short term the phrase was ...
Caring.com analyzed CMS data on the more than 14,000 nursing home facilities in the U.S. to illustrate where family councils and their resident-led counterparts are most common and how families ...
Once touted as one of the most generous family policies in corporate America, Netflix began offering unlimited parental leave to employees during the first year of their child’s birth in 2015.
The first large-scale social policy program in the United States was assistance to Union Civil War veterans and their families. [13] The program provided pensions and disability assistance. [13] From 1890 to the early 1920s, the U.S. provided what Theda Skocpol characterized as "maternalist policies", as it provided pensions for widowed mothers ...
The objective of family planning in the United States is to enable individuals to determine the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which that target may be achieved. Doing so can bring many benefits including improved maternal health, the prevention of the spread of STDs , and decreased infant and child mortality rates.
Which aspects of family life are considered important by the family, government, or group Views about marriage and sexuality; State policies that concern family structure and benefits; Change and interaction Interactions of family members with each other, other organizations, impact of policy measures