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Alfred Kahn was the father of comparative studies of family policies (and of course Sheila Kamerman is the mother). I was one who has followed their footsteps, initially inspired by Family Policy: Government and Families in Fourteen countries (Kamerman & Khan, 1978) and Income Transfers for Families with Children: An eight Country Study (Kahn & Kamerman, 1983) and later their multi-volume multi-country study Family Policies and Family Change in the West (Kamerman & Khan, 1997). I was honoured to be one of their many contacts on their frequent visits to Europe as they kept up to date on family policy.
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Bradshaw, J. (2010). An International Perspective on Child Benefit Packages. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_17
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