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FROM: Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak Contra
Costa
DATE: Introduced February 3, 1987 for Action on County
February 10, 1987
SUBJECT: Hearing on "The Changing Family to the Year 2000"
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
Request Assemblyman Tom Bates include testimony from Contra
Costa County Board of Supervisors and the Contra Costa
Family Alliance at the hearing March 21, 1987 on "The
Changing Family to the Year 2000: Planning for Our
Children' s Future" . Direct the County Administrator' s
Office to prepare testimony from the Board of Supervisors
and authorize the Chair to testify on behalf of the Board of
Supervisors.
BACKGROUND
See attached information.
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Phil Batchelor, CIerk: of the
Board of Supervisors & County
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THOMAS H. BATES
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON
HUMAN SERVICES
The Assembly Human Services Committee will hold the state' s
first hearings on family policy, "The Changing Family to the Year
2000: Planning for Our Children ' s Future," on Saturday, March 21
in San Francisco. Designed to examine the structural ,
demographic and economic changes transforming California
families , the hearing will involve policymakers , community
organizations , business and labor leaders and , of course ,
families themselves to begin to craft a genuinely "pro-family"
policy agenda.
American families no longer conform to our nostalgic notions
of a full -time , stay-at-home mother and a full-time , breadwinner
father raising two children. Despite the pro-family rhetoric of
many politicians , the United States lags far behind all other
industrial nations in family support policies -- like affordable
child care , parental leave , flexible work schedules, family
allowances and employment security -- to allow parents to bring
in an adequate income while balancing work and family
commitments . That policy vacuum is fast creating a crisis , given
the dramatic changes in family structure, demography and economic
stability that have become evident in recent years (see attached
Fact Sheet) .
The March 21 hearing will provide an overview on how these
social and economic transforations are affecting California
families , and how public policy can better address contemporary
family concerns. The hearing agenda will feature four panels:
Changing Family Structure, Changing Family Pop-ulations , -Changing
Family Economics and Family and Mork: Easing the Conflict.
Confirmed speakers include:
° Congressman George Miller (D-CA) , Chair of the Congressional
Select Committee on Children. Youth and Families
Alice Ilchman , President, Sarah Lawrence College and
co-chair of the Family Policy Panel of the United Nations
Association - USA Economic Policy Council .
° Ray Marshall , former U.S. Secretary of Labor and currently
the Bernard Rapoport Professor of Economics and Public
Affairs at the University of Texas - Austin
• John Sweeney, International President, Service Employees
International Union and co-chair of the Family Policy Panel
of the United Nations Association - USA Economic Policy
Council .
Other panelists include business leaders , demographers , state
elected officials , social service providers , and individual
families , all coping with dramatic changes in the way
Californians live, work and raise their children. For more ,
'information on the hearing, or a copy of the final agenda ,
contact Elaine Zimmerman or Joan Walsh at 916-445-7554.