Family Policy, Family Changes
Sweden, Italy & Britain Compared

By Patricia Morgan
June 2006
CIVITAS
ISBN: 1903386438
148 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"
$35.00 Paper Original

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In this book, the author considers the state of the family in three Western European nations, comparing Britain with Catholic Italy and secular Sweden. Like all developed countries, they have laws to permit divorce, abortion, and to provide welfare benefits for single parents.

Contents:

Sweden: Socialist Engineering in Family Policy.
Italy: Hotel Mama is Closing Down.
Britain: The Worst of All Worlds?
Overview & Conclusions.
Notes.
Tables:
Employment Rates & Part-Time Work in the EU.
Social Indicators for Sweden, Britain & Italy (1999).
Declared Legal Abortions & Abortion Rates.

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