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Eichner, Maxine. "Families, the State, and Caretaker-Dependent Relationships" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150720_index.html>

Eichner, M. , 2006-08-31 "Families, the State, and Caretaker-Dependent Relationships" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2011-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p150720_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: This paper considers the state’s responsibility vis-à-vis families for citizens who are substantially dependent on others, including children, the aged, and those with significant disabilities. To what extent is the welfare of dependents the state’s responsibility, and to what extent is it their families’? It is this issue that underlies contentious policy debates concerning welfare reform, foster care, and family leave. I begin by considering two influential models of the division of this responsibility. The first, articulated by civic liberal William Galston, posits that the state’s responsibility to assist families in caring for dependency is a “residual” responsibility, triggered only after families have tried and exhausted their own resources. The second, propounded by feminist Martha Fineman, treats children as a public good, and characterizes the state’s responsibility as a debt owed to parents and other caretakers of dependents. I contend that neither adequately conceptualizes the family-state relationship. Galston conceptualizes families as too distant from the state, failing to recognize the ways in which families require certain institutional preconceptions to function well. Fineman, meanwhile, treats families as an extension of the state without recognizing the autonomy of the individuals that compose them. I then propose my alternative, the “supportive state” model. In this model, the state’s responsibility to protect society’s vulnerable dependents is conceived as requiring the state to construct institutions that support families in their caretaking efforts simultaneously with families’ responsibility to care for and support their dependents. I argue that this approach better reflects liberal democratic ideals than existing contenders, and better theorizes the limits of the state’s responsibility to families. I then consider how the type of public support that the state should offer caretakers intersects with the important good of sex equality.

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