Parents' duties, children's debts : the limits of policy intervention
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Parents' duties, children's debts : the limits of policy intervention
Arena, c1995
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Bibliography: p159-178. - Includes index
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Description
This work on family duty and how it intersects with policy asks questions such as: to what extent should we be responsible for our children; what is the nature of the debt we owe to our parents; and, how far should the state involve itself with these matters?
Table of Contents
- Introduction - family debts, biological liabilities
- playing for children - procreation and financial liability
- families in need - crisis and responsibility
- troublesome children - failure and moral liability
- ethnicity, culture and parenthood - policy dilemmas
- "burdensome" parents - reciprocity, rationing and needs assessment
- constructing the "private" carer - daughters of reform?
- "contracting out" familial liabilities
- conclusion - the limits of policy intervention.
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