PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Box Office, Madeleine M. Kunin, Truancy
Document Summary
What does the future hold for family policy: the main character in policymaking in this country is individualism; familism is assigned bit parts and sometimes not cast at all. Information is needed on a number of fronts if we are going to advance evidence-based family policy including, but not limited to, the following: Is research evidence incorporated into policy decisions: how important are families to their members and society, our field has discovered much about family life. Scientific evidence has influenced many policies including the quality of children"s educational television programming; improvements in child passenger safety; a law requiring federal reimbursement of foster care maintenance through age 21; and so forth. Scientific evidence provided to state policymakers by the family impact seminars contributed to. Medicaid policy, prescription drug laws, refundable child care tax credits, a state children"s. Policy activism often starts with a healthy dose of anger.
