Unit

School Of Social Sciences And Psychology

Families and Family PolicyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101357.2

Discipline: HUMAN WELFARE STUDIES AND SERVICES NEC

Student Contribution Band: 1

Level: 2

Credit Points: 10

Equivalent Units
C2062 - Families and Family Policy

Prerequisite
101329 Social Policy

About this Unit
This unit is concerned with two major areas of study -the family as a social institution and social policies that relate directly to families. The first includes an examination of underlying assumptions, demographic changes, the role of the state, changes in family structure and processes and the ways in which dimensions of inequality - ethnicity, race, class, age, disability and gender - impact on families. The second explores the implications for social policy development of changes in family formation and structure, and examines some important policy issues such as childcare, family violence, child welfare and family law but also social security, taxation and industrial relations.