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preferred to act autonomously, the voluntary basis was sometimes underrnined. This is not the appropriate forum for reviewing in greater detail all the developments in the family which have occurred over the last few decades; listing certain aspects, such as the fact that households have become s ...
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government generaUy felt constrained from basing its policies on any other moral principles than those of the autonomy of the individua\. it was time to say fareweU to the moral restrictions of the Christian era with regard to marriage and the family.6 The second half of the 1990s marked the slow ...
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RoeI Kuiper, lector Community Issues of the Reformed University of applied sciences in Zwolle, has pointed to the development of the socialisation of the family alongside this individualisation, reasoning that the family is increasingly subject to social institutions such as the government and th ...
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European countries. Families are relatively small in the Netherlands: women born after 1975 have an average of 1. 7 children." There are also many divorces and alternative forms of co-habitation. The number of single-parent families has increased significantly in recent years. In 2006, one in fiv ...
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Although the majority of families manage very weU, there are same with problems, aften in connection with bringing up children. The Cabinet has considered this subject and is working on a policy to tackle such problems energeticaUy and preferably preventively. Youth welfare policy is under review ...
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teacher or the child health centre, single parents were more likely to approach social work organisations and youth care and youth health care agencies. 20 A survey conducted by E-Quality, the Dutch knowledge centre for gender, family and diversity issues, showed that by far the majority of paren ...
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family starts to become dysfunctiona\. 24 In 2006 another girl was ki\\ed by her father; she was nicknamed the Maas girl after the River Maas near Rotterdam where she was found. Over the last ten years, appeals to youth care have been made with increasing speed (see table 1.1). In its preliminary ...
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As has already been mentioned, a great deal of effort is being concentrated on tackling family prablems 'behind the front door', which raises the question about the extent to which the government can and should be allowed to become involved. Consequently, this study wil! centre on the extent of t ...
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2. Youth and family policy in the Netherlands As we learned in the previous chapter, there has been renewed government interest in the family in recent years; this chapter will show how present government policy is leading to the exertion of greater government influence within the family. Numerou ...
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member states, the Netherlands ranks fairly low in child -centred financial support for families. 28 This is a consequence of the fact that the Dutch government primarily provides employment-centred family support. The government pays two-thirds of the cast of childcare as part of its support for ...
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