Family policy, a subfield of social policy, encompasses one of four family functions: family creation (e.g., to marry or divorce, to bear or adopt children, to provide foster care); economic support (e.g., to provide for the basic needs of members); childrearing (e.g., to socialize the next generation); and family caregiving (e.g., to provide assistance for the disabled, ill, frail, and elderly). Family policies address issues such as child care, child support, divorce, family violence, juvenile crime, long-term care, and teenage pregnancy.
This collection is made up of full text reports on families, available to view free of charge