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review October 2024

State approaches to family in Poland, Hungary and Romania

Review by Orel Beilinson
Katalin Novak standing in front of a booth. The booth is light blue and has small clouds on it. Just above her in the background the logo of the World Congress of Families in visible. Line drawing of two adults and two children, with the text "World Congress of Families in Budapest" under it. Novak is wearing a white T-shirt with a large necklace made out of large, colourful oval shaped beads.
In Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), Tomasz Inglot, Dorottya Szikra and Cristina Raț offer a comparative historical study of family policies couched in a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country. Orel Beilinson writes that, beyond its specific analyses, the book serves as a fantastic reference for scholars of family and welfare policies of other regions.
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