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Thy father and thy mother: a second look at filial responsibility and family policy
- Author:
- SCHORR Alvin
- Publisher:
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Social Security Administ
- Publication year:
- 1980
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Comparative study focusing on the changes over a 21 year period in attitudes to filial responsibility in the United States.
Comment on policy: the bleak prospect for public child welfare
- Author:
- SCHORR Alvin L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 74(1), March 2000, pp.125-136.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Presents a brief review of the twentieth-century development of public child welfare in the USA, identifying blows that degraded the system from the 1960s. Assesses the steps that were taken to reform the system moderately as well as the more radical reform proposals. The author highlights a few hopeful developments, but has a generally pessimistic view for public child welfare in the USA.
Passion and policy: a social worker's career
- Author:
- SCHORR Alvin L
- Publisher:
- David Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 211p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cleveland, OH
Shows how the author, a prominent social reformer in the United States, dealt with policy issues at times of high drama inside the federal government, in a major university, in a large voluntary social service agency, and in a Presidential campaign. The final chapters offer reflections on the extent to which social reform is possible and the quixotic nature of public policy formulation.
The personal social services: an outside view
- Author:
- SCHORR Alvin L
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Critique of current developments in the personal social services, focusing in particular on: the PSS clientele and their resources; the economic environment of the PSS; funding; 'cognitive dissonance' in the personal social services; the Children Act and child abuse; and cost effectiveness, assessment and care management in community care. Draws conclusions and makes recommendations.