Family shifts: families, policies, and gender equality
"Family Shifts looks at how families and family policies have evolved during this century; how different trends have affected families in the past and present; how spousal and parental roles have changed; how many policies are based on an inappropriate model of the family (the individual respon...
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| Summary: | "Family Shifts looks at how families and family policies have evolved during this century; how different trends have affected families in the past and present; how spousal and parental roles have changed; how many policies are based on an inappropriate model of the family (the individual responsibility model): and how a new model of the family - the social responsibility model - might improve family policies. Family Shifts will be of interest to the general public as well as to specialists in family law, sociology, social work, family studies, policy studies, Canadian studies, and policy makers."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: | V, 273 S. |
| ISBN: | 0195412508 |
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Acknowledgements vi
Introduction: Family Shifts 1
Chapter 1 6
From the Patriarchal Model to the Individual Responsibility
Model of the Family
Introduction 6
Seven Biases in the Family Literature 7
Three Models of the Family 9
The Faulty Definition of Productive Versus Unproductive Labour 17
From a Patriarchal to an Individual Responsibility Model 19
Conclusion 24
Chapter 2 25
Social, Economic, and Legal Trends Affecting Families
Introduction 25
Convergence of Family Structures in Highly Industrialized Countries 30
Canadian Social Trends 31
Economic Trends 34
Legal Trends 38
Conclusion 42
Chapter 3 43
The Blurring of Spousal Roles
Introduction 43
Legal Marriages and Common Law Relationships 44
Heterosexual and Homosexual Unions 51
Wives and Husbands 59
Conclusion 65
Chapter 4 66
Uncertain Parental Roles
Introduction 66
A Category System for Describing Parental Roles 68
The Ambiguous Situation of Fathers 69
From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Redefinition of Motherhood 77
Conclusion 87
Chapter 5 88
Internal Contradictions: Why the Individual Responsibility
Model Cannot Work
Introduction 88
1 What Is the Underlying Ideology Concerning Gender Equality? 88
2. What Are the Assumptions About the Legal Status of Marriage? 93
3 What Are the Assumptions About Household/Family
Memberships Incongruence/Congruence? 96
4 What Is the Appropriate Unit of Administration? 101
5 What Are the Assumptions Concerning Economic
Responsibility/Dependency? 103
6. What Are the Assumptions About Care and Service Provision for
Family Members in Need of Care? 103
7. What Is Seen as the Appropriate Private Public Division of
Responsibilities? 106
8. What Are the Assumptions with Respect to Heterosexualiry/
Homosexuality? 108
Conclusion 108
Chapter 6 110
From Refurbishing the Past to Abolishing the Family:
Three Proposed Solutions
Introduction 110
A Return to the Traditional Nuclear Family 110
Gender Equality in Families in the Genderless Society 115
Replacing Marriage as a Legal Category With the Mother Child Dyad 119
Conclusion 122
Chapter 7 123
The Social Responsibility Model of the Family
The Ideology Concerning Gender Equality 123
Families Under Minimal Stratification 127
Marriage as a Legally Privileged Relationship 130
The Unit of Administration 133
Assumptions Concerning Economic Dependency/Interdependency
and Care Provision 134
Case History: The Story of John by Meg Luxton 138
Care Provision for a Family s Children 143
The Appropriate Private Public Division of Responsibilities 143
Assumption Concerning Heterosexuality/Homosexuality 144
Components of the Social Responsibility Model of the Family 144
Conclusion: Caution Is the Mother of Wisdom 145
Chapter 8 147
Practical Applications of the Social Responsibility Model
Introduction 147
Taxation of Alimony or Maintenance Income 149
Child Support Payments 153
Financial Support for All Lone Parent Families 155
Financial Support for All Low Income Families 156
Child Care Expenses 156
Child Care 159
Spousal Amount 160
Family Status for the Purpose of Employment Benefits 162
Parental Leave 163
Conclusion 164
Appendix 1 165
Excerpts Concerning Family Relationships from the
Canadian Federal Tax Guides, 1970 1994
Appendix 2 186
Demographic Trends
Appendix 3 189
Diagnostic Questions for Identifying Sexism in Research
Notes 194
References 245
Index 269
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