KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …

children, but most families valued theirlocal community.[...] …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families … problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …