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How do federal policies affect the family? Let us count the ways. Or better yet, we’ll let the Catholic University’s Family Impact Seminar count them. When it conducted an inventory in 1978, there were 268 government programs that affected the family. Although the budgets of some have been reduced since 1978, the total number of programs certainly has not diminished—and may even have increased.
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Lenkowsky, L. (1987). The Federal Government and the Family. In: Wilson, J.Q., Loury, G.C. (eds) Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7029-5_10
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