The current effort to use social policy to restore the traditional nuclear
family reflects deep-seated fears about the changing structure of the
middle-class family, as well as distrust of the caretaking capacity of the
poor. The concepts of the family ethic and social reproduction are used
to examine and explain the cutbacks in social welfare and the state's
increasingly punitive treatment of poor women and their families.
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