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December 1985 (Volume 63)
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June Axinn
Mark J. Stern
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Complex interactions of culture, demography, and politics have affected-and been affected by-public policy toward children and the aging in the United States. Changes in the economic relationships between parents and children have led, especially since the New Deal, to improved public policy for the aging and a relative decline in provisions for children. The contemporary problems of public welfare might lead to a reconsideration of divisions between public and private responsibility.
Author(s): June Axinn; Mark J. Stern
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Volume 63, Issue 4 (pages 648–670) Published in 1985
