Family policies. Concepts, goals and instruments
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Family policies are a comparatively late addition to social policies and they have been developed mainly within Europe. Public, state intervention into family matters, through different kind of legal norms concerning marriage, filiation, inheritance, schooling obligations, working age and so forth however, has a much longer and broader history. The goals, as well as the instruments, of family policy change over time and across countries. Focusing on social family policies only, in this paper the concept of (social) family policies itself and the main dimensions of such policies will be analysed, with particular regard for the distinction between goals and outcomes, between different kinds of instruments and their possible interplay and to whether it is possible to identify specific family policy patterns that distinguish clear country clusters. Following this, the main instruments of family policies are presented and discussed from a comparative perspective, in particular with regard to policies addressing the presence of children and those addressing the presence of frail old family members. The focus is in on the EU, with occasional reference to the US and also to developing countries.
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