Exam 15: Family Social Policy

Zimmerman says the goal of family policy should be directed toward two-parent families, births within wedlock, and the elimination of divorce.

Macro-level policy focuses on patterns of personal interactions that characterize everyday life.

The Heritage Foundation defines its policy role as nonpolitical and to objectively sharpen thinking and increase public awareness of important issues.

Groups representing the conventional perspective believe that involved adults should strive to become equal partners.

__________ is the type of family policy research that attempts to assess the intended and unintended consequences of public policy and social programs.

Zimmerman's goal of family policy is to

At the turn of this century, the Bush administration made pleas for a new Department of Family to provide assistance to families and children.

According to the text, policy at a micro-level

The text takes the position that the family policy researcher should not attempt to be value free, but rather should lend support to the causes that improve family life.

The text concludes that most changes in the family such as divorce, unwed parenthood, or same-sex marriages are destructive of the social order.

Scanzoni argues for policy at a __________ level, an alternative model that supplies a fit between the macro- and micro-levels.

Policy at a meso-level would extend beyond the person or family, but not encompass an entire state or nation.