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Social Policies for Children
ISBN-13:
9780815736660
ISBN-10:
0815736665
Author:
Irwin Garfinkel, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Sara S. McLanahan
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Brookings Inst Pr
Format:
Hardcover
282 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780815736660
ISBN-10:
0815736665
Author:
Irwin Garfinkel, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Sara S. McLanahan
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Brookings Inst Pr
Format:
Hardcover
282 pages
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Social Policies for Children (ISBN-13: 9780815736660 and ISBN-10: 0815736665), written by authors
Irwin Garfinkel, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Sara S. McLanahan, was published by Brookings Inst Pr in 2016.
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Successful social policies for children are critical to America's future. Yet the status of children in America suggests that the nation's policies may not be serving them well. Infant and child mortality rates in the U.S. remain high compared to other western industrialized nations; child poverty rates have worsened in the past decade; poor health care, child abuse, and inadequate schooling and child care persist.This book presents a new set of social policies designed to alleviate these problems and to help satisfy the needs of all children. The policies deal with the seven critical domains affecting children from birth through the passage to adulthood: child care, schooling, transition to work, health care, income security, physical security, and child abuse.While nearly everyone agrees that children are in trouble, there is considerable debate over what kind of trouble they are in, why this is so, and whether government can or should more actively seek to solve these problems. Americans are evenly divided on the question of whether children's problems are more economic or moral in origin. The seven proposals in this volume both reflect and cut across ideological disagreements. Some call for more government, others call for less, and all call for different government methods for achieving socially agreed upon goals.Recommendations include: replacing major welfare programs and tax subsidies with a set of universal policies, including national health insurance, child support assurance, and universal child care; offering publicly funded vouchers to allow poor children in inner-city neighborhoods to choose their own schools; using both private and governmental resources to get tough on crime through more stringent criminal justice policies and dramatic social measures; and expanding apprenticeship programs for non-college bound youths.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Barbara R. Bergmann and Robert I. Lerman, American University; Douglas J. Besharov, American Enterprise Institute; John J. DiIulio, Jr., Princeton University; Julia Graham Lear, George Washington University; and Diane Ravitch, New York University.
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