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China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving: Raising Little Suns
By Esther Goh
This book examines the social phenomenon in contemporary urban China where grandparents from either or both paternal and maternal lineage, together with the biological parents, revolve themselves around raising the single child who is commonly referred to as ‘little sun’ This endearing term...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-60250-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society
By You Yenn Teo
This book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. The book focuses on the case of Singapore to illustrate that the ways in which questions of culture and morality are resolved matter: they establish...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-59397-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Evidence-Based Policymaking: Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers
By Karen Bogenschneider, Thomas J. Corbett
This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-80584-1 | Paperback (Routledge Academic)
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Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse
By Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson
Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social...
January 2010 | 978-0-415-43467-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Introduction to Family Processes: Fifth Edition, 5th Edition
By Randal D. Day
What goes on "behind closed doors" in families is examined in this text. Through his storytelling style, Randy Day introduces readers to the family processes approach – the strategies and behaviors families use to achieve goals. The emphasis is on how families work and interact rather than on the...
July 2009 | 978-1-84169-761-1 | Hardback (Routledge Academic)
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The Handbook of European Welfare Systems
Edited by Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant
This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...
June 2009 | 978-0-415-48275-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Families in Asia: Home and Kin, 2nd Edition
By Stella Quah
This new, and fully updated 2nd edition of Families in Asia provides a unique and comparative analysis of family trends in Asia by focusing on the most relevant and significant aspects of family and kin, from the process of dating to the impact of economic development on homes and family...
2008 | 978-0-415-45570-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Families in a Global Context
Edited by Charles B. Hennon, Stephan M. Wilson
Learn what trends and factors are influencing families globally How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an in-depth comparative analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world....
2008 | 978-0-7890-2708-5 | Paperback (Routledge)