Deck 7: How Current Policy Issues Can Benefit From the Family Impact Lens

Question 1

Healthy Start, a children's healthcare policy in Wisconsin, and SCHIP, a federal children's healthcare policy, are great examples of how role of families is valued and supported by policymakers.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What five major roles do families play in health and illness? Give examples of each.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

What makes designing long-term care policy more difficult than designing acute care policy?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What three questions do Bogenschneider et al. (2012) raise for considering family impact on policy?

Question 5

What have family impact analyses on the EITC revealed about the eligibility of cohabiting vs. married couples?

Question 6

How many jobs are expected to be added the U.S. economy over the next 70 years provided that preschools have universal participation?

Question 7

What is the effect of parental involvement on juvenile delinquency?

Question 8

Briefly, compare economic growth in the U.S.. directly after World War II to the early 1970s and from the mid 1970s to today.

Question 9

Which welfare policy provided cash assistance to low or no-income families?

Question 10

How did TANF reform welfare?

Question 11

Name two ways family considerations shifted the perspective on welfare policy?

Question 12

What role do families play in creating juvenile delinquents? What role can families play in policies aimed at reducing juvenile crime? What process did Washington State use to implement evidence-based policy?

Question 13

Give examples of how the family impact lens has impacted the effectiveness, the efficiency, and the implementation of family policies.

Question 14

The family impact lens considers effects of certain legislation, rules, programs, and organizations on family well-being.

Question 15

The "Make Work Pay" experiments conducted in Milwaukee, Minnesota, and Canada were effective in raising low-income families out of poverty, especially single-mothers, African Americans, and high school dropouts.

Question 16

An example of how the family impact lens can guide program implementation is seen in a meta-analysis finding that participation in family-centered programs results in improved self-efficacy, child and parent behaviors, and family well-being.

Question 17

A family impact analysis on international adoption showed significant underrepresentation of and lack of advocacy for the interests of the adoptive family.

Question 18

In the last three decades, childcare services for preschool-age children plummeted from 80% to 25% in correlation with the unemployment rate and an increased rate of work-at-home mothers.

Question 19

Studies have shown that early childhood education has no long-term effect on high school graduation rates or adult earned income.

Question 20

Early childcare results in improved work productivity, lower stress, and advanced education for parents.

Question 21

In a comparison of the U.K.'s parent-centered approach to parent education and the U.S.'s couple-centered approach, parent -focused groups showed the most improvement in both child and parent relationships.

Question 22

A family-focused healthcare approach can help prevent professional medical intervention as family involvement affects promotion of good health, risk reduction, vulnerability, disease onset, disease relapse and adaptation to illness and recovery.

Question 23

Long-term care services are strictly medically-focused and do not include daily living activities.

Question 24

What are the provisions and eligibility requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?