Family policy is receiving much attention these days. Because the growth of single-parent families has proceeded at an accelerated rate among some minority groups, several papers focused on such trends as the growing proportion of poor children, the feminization of poverty, the increase in out-of-wedlock births, the rising unemployment rate and weakening attachment to the labor force of black m...

Elizabeth R. Peterson Department of Psychology, University of Auckland Christine M. Rubie-Davies Faculty of Education, University of Auckland Margaret J. Elley-Brown Centre for Child and Family Policy Research, University of Auckland Deborah A. Widdowson Centre for Child and Family Policy Research, University of Auckland Robyn S. Dixon Centre for Child and Family Policy Research, University of ...

The Affordable Care Act will profoundly infl uence health care delivery in the United States. Here, Dr Randy Wexler, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University, describes his health policy interests and activities. Through the years, Dr Wexler has worked with local-, state-, and federal-level policy makers. We hope that by sharing his experiences, family physicians w...