scholarly journals State Support for Families with Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia: Institutional Grammar Tool Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-442
Author(s):  
Anna Bagirova ◽  
Evgeniya Kuznetsova ◽  
Natalia Blednova
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
State Support ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Main Support ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Regional Authorities

The COVID-19 pandemic is characterised by active law-making processes aimed at health care and support of different categories of population in many countries in the world. Starting from 2019, due to negative demographic trends, Russia has experienced the active transformation of the state support system for families having children. This trend has strengthened during the pandemic. Our research aims to analyse the internal characteristics of the family policy, namely the state support for families having children, during the year preceding pandemic and within the pandemic period. We consider the dynamics of the family policy architecture by means of Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) analysis and demonstrate the opportunities for using the results of such analyses in the highly dynamic situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed 11 federal legal acts adopted in Russia after January 1, 2020 that addressed parents and offered support for families with children. These acts contain 78 institutional statements that we coded in accordance with the IGT rules, defining the attributes, objects, deontics and conditions in each sentence. Our results are as follows: 1) Russian family policy before and during COVID-19 pandemic can be divided into three stages, including the short-term second stage from the beginning of 2020 to the beginning of the pandemic. The most obvious changes in the three stages are seen in terms of the Objects and Conditions of the institutional statements. At the second and third stages we see a major expansion of support receivers (the Objects) as well as changes in the Conditions for the benefits gain.  Conditions vary greatly and differ in terms of regularity of measure and the type of the payment granted; 2) Legal acts adopted do not always indicate clear Attributes, i.e., the subjects (federal and regional authorities) responsible for the implementation of the particular rule sometimes can hinder the implementation of the regulation; 3) Classification of the parameters of the main support measures in the framework and categories of the IGT analyses lead us to the probable concept of the information policy that would be clear to the beneficiaries of support measures.

Early detection of social neglect in economically disadvantaged families as a direction of family policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Tatyana Anatolievna Mikhailova
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Disadvantaged Families

One of the directions of social policy is to improve the situation of children and families with children. The main objectives of family policy are related to improving the well-being of the family. In this regard, it becomes obvious that there is a need to develop a system of measures for early identification of families in crisis.

scholarly journals State family policy in France and Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Anatolievna Shaidenko ◽  
Elena Yakovlevna Orekhova ◽  
Alexander Nikolaevich Sergeev ◽  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Kipurova
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Family State

State family policy and its important direction, which is the improvement of the living conditions of orphans and children left without parental care, require constant updating due to socio-economic and political circumstances. Changes should concern both the state level and the level of specific regions. The improvement of the forms and methods of relations between the state, family and children in a particular country is possible with the consideration of the advanced achievements and miscalculations of other states in this policy. Therefore, it is highly important for the theory and practice of the development of Russian family state and regional policy to study the experience of France. The study made it possible to draw conclusions about the specifics of state policy in the formation of family and childhood in France. In this period, family policy in France has gone from exclusion from the family by the school to a discourse of cooperation. Particular attention is paid to the French School Orientation and Reform Act of June 8, 2013, of particular interest. It recognizes the importance of establishing partnerships between the school and the family and proposes measures of cooperation between school and family, some of which are interesting for contemporary Russian reality. The article shows the advantage of modern Russian family state policy by characterizing its goals, principles and objectives defined in the main regulatory documents of the last decade. The materials of the article are of practical value for legislators and heads of social services of different levels, specialists of educational authorities, social protection, guardianship and trusteeship. The article is of interest to teachers and students of pedagogical universities.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF STATE SUPPORT EFFECTIVENESS FOR HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
I. V. Milkina ◽  
S. V. Lits
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
State Support ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
Civil Sphere ◽  
The Usa ◽  
High Technologies

The issue of the effectiveness of state support for sectors of the domestic economy, engaged in the development and production of products using high technologies, has been considered. Вased on the analysis of indicators characterizing the effectiveness of state support measures in this area, the conclusion has been made about the lack of effectiveness of this activity. It also has been concluded, that measures to support the domestic economy sectors related to its high-tech segment by the state are insufficient, which leads to backwardness of Russia behind the leading economically developed countries (the USA, Japan, Germany) in the development of high-tech industries of the civil sphere. This situation requires the adoption of measures to support and develop the high-tech segment of the domestic economy at the state level. The condition for increasing the effectiveness of measures of state support for the high-tech complex is to increase allocations for R&D in those industries whose products are able to compete with or surpass similar foreign models on an equal basis.

The Growing Role of the State in the Family

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Stephen Baskerville
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Government Bureaucracy

The role of the state in the family has been increasing, arguably,since the beginning of modern history. Historical sociologists like CarleZimmerman suggested that modern history has been characterizedby a gradual increase in the power of the state and that this growthis inversely proportionate to the declining importance of the family.The very field and concept of “family policy” presupposes that the fa-mily is a legitimate sphere of life for state intervention and activity. Yetthe intervention of the state may be like the touch of Midas: that whichit touches it destroys. If scholars like Zimmerman are correct, then themore the state intervenes in the family, the more we can expect the fa-mily to decline. This is borne out by recent experience, and very logicalreasons may be adduced for this and very clear manifestations in are-as like family integrity, parental rights, child welfare, and the increasein family-connected bureaucracies associated with the welfare state.Often our only acceptable response to the problems created by govern-ment intervention is more government intervention. Not only can thecure be worse than the disease; the cure canbe the disease. The resultis ever-more-powerful and ever-more-intrusive government bureaucracy– all purporting to solve the problems created by the previously policiesand the previous bureaucracy. The only way to break this vicious cycle isto discard some of our sacred assumptions about what constitutes familyhealth and to accept a new understanding of the relations between thefamily and the state.

Formation and development of the state policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of gender equality

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Zh. E. Abilgaziyeva ◽  
G. R. Duisembekova ◽  
A. N. Ramashova ◽  
A. B. Orazbayeva
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Republic

This article discusses the issues of creating the necessary social conditions for the fullest realization of the abilities of women and men in all spheres of labor and public life of the Republic of Kazakhstan.The state family policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan is aimed at ensuring favorable socio-economic conditions that contribute to the full implementation of the family's reproductive, economic and educational functions, as well as strengthening the moral foundations of the family and increasing its importance in society.Currently, the world is paying more and more attention to gender issues, that is, the principle of equal rights and opportunities for men and women. Addressing the gender issue is particularly relevant for independent States that have entered the path of market transformation. Today, changes in all spheres of our life require a new look at the role of women in the development of the state and society. The achievement of gender equality ensures the effectiveness of the current family policy, since it helps to strengthen the role and contribution of women and men to the development of the family institution. Addressing women's issues and democratizing society are two interrelated processes. Their essence is that in addition to ensuring equal opportunities for men and women, the prerequisites can be created for the emergence of new forms of expression and realization of women's interests in all spheres of life. It is stated by the authors that in Kazakhstan, it is important to form an individual approach to the formation of family policy, as the family plays an important role among all social institutions that affect the quality of human capital.

Ideological Themes in Family Policy

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

In this exploration of family policy, the author identifies the basic assumptions that shape differing perspectives on such policies. Focus is on the definition of the family, the privileging of certain definitions, the state-family relationship, the valuing or devaluing of the family, and the tension between familism and individualism. The social worker's role in shaping family policy to reflect social work values is examined.

Children of the Welfare State: Individuals with Entitlements, or Hidden in the Family?

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE SKEVIK
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Family ◽  
State Variation ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Families With Children

‘Feminist’ social policy has done an important job in developing new concepts for studying welfare state variation. But just like ‘mainstream’ social policy, gender-sensitive analyses have their blind spots. This article argues that differences in policies towards children remain an understudied area, and that developing concepts for varying policy approaches to children can increase our understanding of social political differences. Two countries – the UK and Norway – are juxtaposed in the empirical analysis, which centres on policies towards children living with one parent and the development of universal child benefits. The empirical discussion suggests that the UK traditionally has been closer to an ‘organic’ view of the family, while Norway has been closer to an ‘individual’ view. Two dimensions are highlighted: the separation of parenting and partnering for the purposes of social benefits, and the extent to which the ‘worthiness’ of the parents determine transfers to children. Both these dimensions have the potential to influence strongly distribution between families with children, as well as the legitimacy of the benefits. They should therefore be of crucial importance in comparative studies of family policy and social policy.

scholarly journals The child, the parents, the family and the state

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingunn T. Ellingsen ◽  
Ingunn Studsrød ◽  
Carolina Muñoz-Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Case

EnglishThere is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social workers’ conceptions of children’s position in the family, in family work in a complex family case, and how their understandings impact on CWS practices when working with families with complex needs in each context. A total of 19 social workers participated in the study. The participants took part in four focus groups, discussing a complex family case (vignette). The results of the analysis reveal similarities and difference across contexts, according to children’s position in CWS work, social worker’s understandings of the responsibilities of parents and the type of family interventions they were inclined to offer. The Chilean social workers seem more family-, and adult-oriented than their Norwegian counterparts, which holds an individualized child oriented view when discussing the case. Moreover, when issues interventions, the Norwegian social workers seems to relay more on the state, whereas the Chilean workers place more trust on the family network. Practical implications of the findings are discussed in light of family welfare policy and child welfare discourses. SpanishLos niños, sus padres, las familias y el Estado. Chile y Noruega comparados.Hay una escasez de investigaciones que comparen América Latina y los países europeos, en términos de cómo las políticas de familia se relacionan con las prácticas de los trabajadores sociales. Este estudio se posiciona en este vacío investigativo, y compara la concepción de trabajadores sociales noruegos y chilenos respecto la posición de los niños en las familias, en el trabajo con familias en casos de familias complejas, y cómo sus interpretaciones impactan en las prácticas del sistema de protección infantil cuando trabajan con familias con necesidades complejas en cada contexto. Un total de 19 trabajadores sociales participaron en el estudio. Los participantes tomaron parte de cuatro grupos focales donde discutieron un caso de familia compleja (viñeta). Los resultados del análisis revelan similitudes y diferencias entre los dos contextos, de acuerdo a la posición de los niños en el trabajo del sistema de protección infantil, la concepción de los trabajadores sociales sobre la responsabilidad de los padres; y el tipo de intervención en familias que son más propensos a ofrecer. Los trabajadores sociales chilenos parecen más orientados hacia la familia (y a los adultos), que sus pares noruegos, quienes sostienen una visión más orientada hacia la individualización de los niños en la discusión del caso. Por otra parte,  cuando se trata de las intervenciones, los trabajadores sociales noruegos parecen apoyarse más en el Estado, mientras que los chilenos ponen más la confianza en las redes familiares. Las implicaciones prácticas de estos hallazgos son discutidas a la luz de las políticas de bienestar familiar y los discursos sobre bienestar infantil.

scholarly journals Children with orphan diseases: a comparative analysis of social welfare support measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Zaitseva ◽  
◽  
Lyudmila Voronina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Orphan Diseases ◽  
State Support ◽  
Social State ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Welfare State

Introduction. The inadequacy of the support measures provided to children with orphan diseases is exacerbated by the trend towards an increase in the number of children with such a diagnosis. Orphan diseases also include diseases caused by primary immunodeficiency or congenital errors of immunity, which are life-threatening. However, these people are part of society and require attention from it, and social and economic measures from the state. Most of them, with proper treatment, socialization and appropriate government support, can lead a normal life and live a full life. Scientific novelty of the research. On the basis of the study results, the authors contribute to clarifying the principles used in the implementation of the security function of the social state. The targeting of social support measures must be supplemented with the principles of social justice and freedom to choose ways to meet the needs of specific categories of citizens, understood as follows. The welfare state supports those citizens who need it most of all, namely, the poor. Specific categories of citizens can satisfy their needs, while having the opportunity to choose. This opportunity arises thanks to the receipt of targeted assistance in the form of monthly or annual subsidies. Families with children with orphan diseases should also be included in these categories. If they have the right to receive annual government subsidies, they will be able to spend these funds depending on the current needs due to the state of health of their children with orphan diseases (for the purchase of socially important food products; medicines, medical nutrition, and various services). The aim of the work is to study the problems of providing support measures to children with orphan diseases in the context of the current model of the welfare state. The article analyzes the satisfaction of patients with congenital immunity errors with various types of state support, identifies problems that reduce their satisfaction. Methods. The authors use methods such as comparative analysis, study of regulatory legal acts, sociological analysis. Results. On the basis of the study results the effectiveness of measures of state support for children with orphan diseases, studying the best experience of foreign countries, proposals were made to clarify the principles used to implement the security function by the social state, to expand the composition of the subjects involved in providing support measures analyzed in the article. Conclusions. The results obtained make it possible to assert that the targeted approach, which is basic in the model of the welfare state, does not cover most of the problems of children with innate immunity errors and, accordingly, the families that represent their interests.

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