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The critical implicit rules roles that family considerations can play in any policy even if it does not explicitly address families or family functions as
(a) a criterion for determining the impact of any policy or program on families.
(b) a means for achieving other unrelated policy goals
(c) administrators of public policy by determining eligibility for benefits and by distributing them to members |
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| Plan or course of action carried out through a law, rule, code, or other mechanism in the public or private sectors. |
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| Elected, hired, or appointed leader at the local, state, or national level who creates and shapes the laws or rules in the public or private sectors; leaders represent and reflect the views of their constituents in public debate and weigh these views along with local and national perspectives, popular opinion, and each one's personal conscience |
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A System of rules
Regulates actions of country or community
Enforced by penalties |
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-Oxford dictionary: a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual
-Bogenschneider: a plan or course of action carried out through a law, rule, code, or other mechanism in the public or private sectors.
-B.L. Flinchbaugh defines public policy as “an identifiable course of action hammered out in the political arena to maximize the satisfaction of the general welfare. |
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1. They require group decisions
2. Solutions are based on value judgements
3. They are of broad interest and concern
4. They are controversial
5. They are recognized by key decision makers as a problem |
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-Explicit-directly related to family functions/domains
-Implicit-indirectly related to family functions/domains
-Family impact lens |
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| Family Policy vs Family Law |
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Family Policy-WHAT is enacted
Family Law-HOW it is enacted |
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-Policy that aims to protect, promote, and strengthen families by addressing one or more of the five explicit functions families perform
-Family Formation-how to families form-procreation,
marriages, adoption
-Partner Relationships
-Economic Support
-Childrearing
-Caregiving |
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| A poll of the opinion of randomly chosen persons, used to represent the opinion of the public, conducted by George Gallup or one of the companies he founded. |
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| Philanthropy role in family policies |
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| Using investments that are small relative to what government can provide, foundations are often credited with generating new ways of thinking such as what issues might be legitimate topics for government action; whether there are better ways to support children and families; which kinds of data would be useful for informing policy decisions; and how barriers to child and family well-being can be overcome. |
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| International conventions role in family policies |
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International law is guided by the Hague Conventions, four of which deal with family law. This is in affect in 85 countries.
The primary purpose of this convention is to preserve the current custody arrangement of a child (under the age 16) to deter parties from seeking more favorable arrangements in other countries; morever, children who are wrongfully abducted must be expeditiously returned through any appropriate remedy.
This convention established safeguards to ensure that intercountry adoptions are in the best interests of the child, and to prevent the abduction, sale, or trafficking of children. |
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Federal laws role in family policies
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Family matters such as child welfare, marriage, divorce, and property distribution are influenced by federal law.
1. Patchwork nature of U.S. Public policy. (ex: the fed government spends more funds on the elderly, primarily through universal programs like Social Security )
2. The wide variation in how policies are funded
3. Shift from providing cash support to offering work support.
4. Devolution of federal authority to state and local |
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| State laws role in family policies |
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2/3 of current spending on children comes from the state and local sources.
"now more than ever, the well-being of children lies in the hands of state policymakers" |
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| What is Annie E. Casey's foundation Kids count and why is important? |
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"The more the public knows about the needs and problems of coming generations, the more likely we are to resolve, the resources, and the strategies for effectively addressing them."
They began collecting data in 1990, which includes an annual report that provides national and state by state data on 16 key indicators of child well-being.
Kids count funds organizations that monitor budgetary and legislative decisions. They have become a trusted source of evidence based information that has enriched discussions among policymakers, professionals, advocates, and citizens working to improve the lives of the nation's most vulnerable children and their families. |
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| The impact philanthropies have on policy making |
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Foundations have provided funding for specific family policy issues that were emerging on the national consciousness but had not yet garnered significant public attention and financial support.
Some grantmakers made investments in the policymaking community, others in the academic community, and some in the connections for the two. |
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| What does the Gallup poll say about the values and priorities of the American people related to family life? |
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| That they care about the education children. 2/3 of adults said they would pay more in taxes to fund preschool programs for children from low-income or poverty level households |
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| Principles in the family impact |
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-Family Responsibility
-Family Stability
-Family Relationships
-Family Diversity
-Family Engagement |
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| Family Impact Discussion Starters |
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-Prepare questions or testimony for hearings, meetings, and public forums
-Frame policy discussions on broad social problems or generate policy responses by panels, boards, or commissions. |
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| Steps in the family impact checklist |
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Principle 1. Family support and responsibilities
Principle 2. Family membership and stability
Principle 3. Family involvement and interdependence
Principle 4. Family partnership and empowerment
Principle 5. Family diversity
Principle 6. Support of vulnerable families |
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| Ways the impact lens can be useful: eligibility, effectiveness, efficiency, design, implementation and targets of interest |
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1. reveals who is and is not eligible to receive benefits
2. enhance effectiveness in achieving policy and program goals
3. increase efficiency in reaching policy and program goals that provide a greater return on investment
4. inform program design
5. guide program implementation
6. indicate whether some families benefit and others do not |
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| The two areas the author uses to examine the contributions that the family impact lens can bring to issues beyond family policy |
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| Long-term care and health care. Both do not explicitly deal with families, but families serve as the background for both. so it is important to consider these things in light of family life |
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