SOCI 200 Lecture 25: W12.1- family policy Mar 19
Week 12- family policy in Canada
Fishbowl
• What are the main issues facing families today:
▪ Parental leave
▪ Availability to support services
▪ Infertility and surrogacy
▪ Gender relations
▪ Low income families
▪ Single parent
• Readings for this week will be on final exam
Families and social policy
• Social policy is important for addressing family challenges because:
o The family is not just a private institution, it is public
o Shaped by societal forces
o Shapes societies
• Major challenges
o Time constraints
o Availability and access to resources
o Availability and access to support services
• Policies can help ease these challenges
Work family balance policy models
• Work family balance/cumulative model
o Aims to balance demands of family life and work e.g. Quebec
o Focus on equal treatment of men and women
o Best model for social integration
o Parental leave
o Flexible work time
• Work family alternating model
o Families choose whether the greater need is family or work
o Focuses on the women
o Family is private
o Maintain gender division
• Non-interventionist model
o Absence of state measures for adjusting work family relationship
▪ Consequence of economic situation
o Family is private
o Has become popular since 1990s in many countries
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