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Comparing Family Policy in Britain, France and Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Linda Hantrais
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Abstract

In a context where the employment model of welfare is dominant, family policy has remained an area of limited and indirect competence for the European Community. Comparative analysis of Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany as examples of EC member states with different socio-cultural traditions and policy styles shows the limitations of theories about universalism, convergence and harmonisation of family structures and policies. Compared with Britain and Germany, the family policy making style in France is more explicit, visible, coherent and legitimate. Its objectives are overtly pro-natalist and it would seem to have had a stronger direct socio-economic impact.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 135 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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