This Credit Unit focuses on connections between families and the larger society. First, you will learn about families and work. Specifically, course materials will address how family life and work life influence each other and how changes in gender role expectations with respect to work have changed and how families function from day to day. Second, you will learn the definition of, and about the creation of, the welfare state. You will learn that as a nation, we have changed some policies and failed to change other policies as family structures, attitudes towards discrimination and inequality, and societal demands on families have changed. Finally, you will investigate current policy debates affecting families.

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