Family Policy in France

Bibliographic Data

ID2114074
AuthorsBarbara N Rodgers (corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume4
Issue2
Pages113-128
Publication date1975-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400024211
OpenAlexW2062932865
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited1

To ask about a country's family policy is to ask how state action, government policies, are actually affecting families and the quality of family life - not just poor families, but all families in that country. French family policy is considered under three headings: (1) the political significance of the family in France, (2) the social security services designed to increase the economic viability of the family and to promote family welfare, and (3) the adjustment of French family policy to the changing economic situation and aspirations of ordinary families. Comparisons are drawn with British policies under each heading and the conclusion drawn that compared with Britain France has a more conscious, clearly defined concept of family policy, which finds expression firstly in statutory and voluntary institutions whose primary or even sole purpose is to promote the welfare of the family, and secondly, in a whole range of statutory benefits to which the parents of the nuclear family are entitled as of right

Family life · Government (linguistics) · Nuclear family · Political science · Politics · Social policy · Social security · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Statutory law · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Social Policies and Family

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