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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED260837 AUTHOR: Collins, Randall; And Others
TITLE: Social Change and Family Policies. Key Papers, Part
I. International CFR Seminar (20th, Melbourne, Australia,
August 19-24, 1984).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
NOTE: 424 p.; For related documents, see PS 015 308-311.
AVAILABILITY: Institute of Family Studies, 766 Elizabeth
Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia (no price
quoted).
ABSTRACT: These papers from an International Committee on
Family Research (CFR) seminar explore seven themes, four of
which are presented in Part 1. The first set of papers
approach the question of whether the family is worth
supporting and the related issue of pressures, conflicts,
and expectations of family life (Theme 1). Randall Collins
discusses "Social Conflict and the Place of the Family:
Toward a Theory of Moral Politics." Robert A. Lewis
describes "Some Changes in Men's Values, Meanings, Roles,
and Attitudes Toward Marriage and Family in the USA." Helen
Glezer identifies "Antecedents and Correlates of Marriage
and Family Attitudes in Young Australian Men and Women."
Major demographic trends affecting family policy (Theme 2)
are identified by Arland Thornton and Peter McDonald,
respectively, in papers on "Modernization and Family
Change" and "Implications for Families of Third World
Fertility Trends." Three additional papers discuss families
with children and social policy approaches to family
support and education (Theme 3): "Family Policy as
Latter-Day Children's Policy" by Gilbert Steiner;
"Divorcees, Children, and the Public" by Jan Trost; and
"The Child's Use of Family Resources" by Gay Ochiltree and
Paul Amato. The topic of youth policies and the
family/work/education relationship (Theme 4) is
particularized in Roland Eckert and Helmut Willems' "Youth
Conflicts and Public Policy Challenges in Western Europe"
and in Don Edgar and Frank Maas' "Adolescent Competence,
Leaving Home and Changing Family Patterns." (RH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescents-; Birth-Rate; Competence-;
Conflict-; Demography-; Developing-Nations; Divorce-;
Foreign-Countries; Marriage-; Moral-Values; Parent
Attitudes; Personal-Autonomy; Policy-Formation; Political
Issues; Seminars-; Sex-Role; Social-Problems; Surveys-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Family-Sociological-Unit; *Family
Problems; *Modernization-; *Public-Policy; *Social-Change;
*Social-Environment
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