Toward a national family policy.

Schroeder, Pat

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.44.11.1410

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“…Governmental and employer policies regarding families do not reflect the dramatic changes in the structure and diversity of American families over the past 20 years (Schroeder, 1989). The lack of a supportive and functional family is the single largest factor associated with adolescent homelessness (GAO, 1989).…”

Section: Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Homeless youths and HIV infection.

Rotheram‐Borus¹,

Koopman²,

Ehrhardt³

1991

American Psychologist

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Risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection exacerbates the already difficult lives of 1.5 million homeless adolescents in the United States. Homeless youths engage in sexual and substance-abuse behaviors that place them at increased risk of contracting HIV, and they demonstrate other problem behaviors that reduce their coping responses. Model HIV prevention programs and interventions for HIV-positive youths, implemented for homeless adolescents, need to be disseminated on a national level. Social policies must recognize adolescents' rights to satisfaction of basic survival needs; comprehensively address the needs of dysfunctional, disenfranchised, and single-parent families; and provide continuity of care for adolescents to facilitate independent living. Special provisions must be made when designing programs for gay, sexually abused, and substance-abusing youths.

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Section: Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Homeless youths and HIV infection.

Rotheram‐Borus¹,

Koopman²,

Ehrhardt³

1991

American Psychologist

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“…Advocates of a national family policy in the United States (such as Kamerman, 1984;Schroeder, 1989) have pointed out that this is the only Western industrialized nation, and one of the few countries in the world, without such a policy They have argued that the United States should adopt the major provisions of Scandinavian and other European policies: children's allowances, paid parental leave for childbirth and sickness, flextime and part-time work for mothers, and public day care for all Republic (East Germany), and the Federal Republic of Germany (formerly West Germany). These three countries were selected because all had constitutional guarantees of equality between the sexes and experienced similar post-World War II economic and fertility problems.…”

Section: Family-labor Market Policies In Three European Countries Patmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, Work, and Babies: Family-Labor Market Policies in Three European Countries

Spakes¹

1995

Affilia

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This analysis of the family-labor market policies of three European countries—Sweden, the former East Germany, and the former West Germany—contends that the major influences on such policies are the labor needs of the economic system; state-promoted notions of equality of opportunity versus equality of result; and public attitudes toward gender, motherhood, and equality. It demonstrates the contradiction inherent in policies that seek both to protect mothers and to promote equality in the workforce and the need to consider equality of result, as well as equality of opportunity, as a potential policy goal.

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“…Advocates of family and medical leave legislation considered its passage to be a move to strengthen the family and "brighten the baby's future" (Brazelton, 1991). They pointed to the fact that the United States was one of only two nations that did not have a family leave policy (Dodd, 1990;Schroeder, 1989) and to studies demonstrating that family-friendly policies increase recmitment and retention for trained employees, thus actually reducing costs rather than increasing them as many feared (Brazelton, 1991).…”

Section: General Policymentioning

confidence: 99%