Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe

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SAXONBERG Steven

Year of publication 2011
Type Chapter of a book
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Faculty of Social Studies

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Description During the era of communist rule several different types of tensions arose. Despite differences in policies, these tensions were very similar for Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, because they still had some important institutional similarities (long extended mother leaves, the decision to move nurseries for children under three to the ministries of health, and incomes policies that encouraged mother parents to work despite the existence of longer extended leaves, and the absence of father leaves). These tensions arose between several systems.
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