Description: "Describing himself as a policy analyst, Moroney addresses the relationship between the family and society in the delivery of social services to dependent members... Written for those interested in social policy issues or those charged with creating and evaluating social policy, this book draws together issues from family studies, social welfare, and political policy. An extensive bibliography is included at the end... Moroney calls for professional reorientation in order to carry out both curative and supportive functions." --Family Relations ".. . a very impressive piece of work. It tackles an issue that has been very central to the development of social welfare in this country and one that continues to cross-cut policy debate in many areas of the social services. The monograph represents not only good policy analysis (in the sense of informing decision makers about alternative courses of action and their consequences), but good scholarship as well. The author's use of the literature and of secondary data sources to describe the relationship between public provision and family care giving is in the best tradition of this kind of policy research, and I think, provides a methodological model for how such analyses might be conducted." --Rino Patti, University of Washington, Seattle

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