CHD4615 Exam 1 Review Guide 09 24 2015 Why Family Policy is Important Private and Public Realms public sphere Policies to know o Public events can affect the private lives of families Ex employment benefits o Private activities of the family have huge impacts on the Ex instilling values in children and supporting the sick o SCHIP State Children s Health Insurance Program Provides health insurance coverage for children whose families are not eligible for Medicaid but who cannot afford insurance o EITC Earned Income Tax Credit A federal tax credit for low and moderate income working people It encourages and rewards work as well as offsets federal payroll and income taxes o SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Formerly food stamps Offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible low income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities Largest program in the domestic hunger safety net o WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Childre Provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods health care referrals and nutrition education for low income pregnant breastfeeding and non breastfeeding postpartum women and to infants and children up to age 5 who are to be at nutritional risk Promotes school readiness of children under 5 from low income families through education health social and other services o Headstart o Medicaid Social health care program for families and individuals with low income and limited resources Largest source of funding for medical and health related services for people with low income in the US o Social Security Act Legislation signed in 1935 to provide federal financial assistance to the retired aging and unemployed o Child Care Tax Credit Examples of student and grassroots activism o Arab Spring 2011 In response to human rights abuse media censorship and other issues student organized and initiated protests overthrew governments in Tunisia Egypt Libya and Yemen o Occupy Wall street 2010 2011 Revitalized national and international discussions about income inequality Increased news coverage of income inequality issues by 500 o Tea Party Movement 2009 Concerned about taxes and government spending the Tea Part successfully reshaped the politics of the Republican Part and is considered responsible for the Republican takeover of the House of Rep in 2012 o Berkeley of the South 1960 1975 FSU was a hotspot of student activism including regular protests about women s rights racial integration and the Vietnam war FSU students also originated the practice of streaking when in 1974 200 students ran nude across Landis Green o Davis vs Prince Edward County 1951 16 year old Jones ralied students to protest the segregation of schools in Farmville VA and lead to a series of strikes This led to a lawsuit which was ultimately combined with other suits into the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court case that desegregated schools o Polish Solidarity Movement o Cuban Revolution 1928 1933 Students in Cuba launched a bried revolution that overthrew the sitting government They installed a new government headed by a popular college professor Dr San Martin Other Policies to know o Collective Bargaining Rights Organized worker s practice of negotiating with their employers for the terms of their contract wages and working conditions usually through a trade union that speaks on behalf of the employees o Retraining Opportunities Chances for the unemployed underemployed to learn new skills that better equip them for the workforce o Unemployment benefits Government supplemental income for the unemployed usually with specific criteria for inclusion and requirements that the worker seek new employment o Respite care Services providing reprieve for caregivers of the elderly chronically ill or those with disabilities by taking over their care responsibilities for a period of time o Private sector Unions An organized group of laborers working for privately owned firms whose leadership negotiates for the rights and interests of the group s shared goals o Public sector Unions An organized group of public sector laborers whose leadership negotiates for the rights and interests of the group s shared goals o Family Paid Leave Policy allowing a worker time off to care for a new child or seriously ill family member while continuing to receive some income In other nations not US paid family leave is legally guaranteed and sometimes even subsidized by the government o Parental Leave Workforce policy allowing either parent of a child to take paid or unpaid time off to care for that child most commonly used in the case of a child s birth adoption or sickness Six possible explanations for the Marginalization of families in policy o Politicians are uninterested or inattentive to family and family issues o There is a lack of interest attention and support for family policies from professionals o The public is uninterested in families as a policy issue o Rapid change in contemporary families have marginalized family policy making Delays in fertility and marriage increase in cohabitation divorce and non marital childbearing etc o Skepticism or uncertainty about the appropriate role of government in family life Most programs are not unified and are underfunded o Lack of professionals trained in evidence based family policy Defining Family Policy Define Family Policy Implicit and Explicit family policies o Policy that aims to protect promote and strengthen families o Policy by addressing one or more of the five explicit functions families perform rule code or other mechanism in the public or private sectors is plan or course of action carried out though a law o Some policies explicitly target family functions or structure as an end goal or use families as their means of administering policy Ex EITC or Immigration o Other policies implicitly affect families even if they aren t designed specifically to impact or work through families Ex Healthcare policy Structural definition of a family o Structural relationships such as Blood relatives Legal relationships marriage adoption Residential patterns cohabitation Five explicit functions of families o Family Formation o Partner Relationships o Economic Support o Childrearing o Caregiving Family Impact Lens o Framework that focuses on the implicit impacts of policy on families o Three roles families can play in policy Families as a criterion for impact of a policy or program As a means of achieving