Family Impact Analysis Checklist Template Page 2
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4FAMILY IMPACT CHECKLIST
Principle 1. Family responsibility.
Policies and programs should aim to support and empower the functions that
families perform for society—family formation, partner relationships, economic support, childrearing, and caregiving.
Substituting for the functioning of families should come only as a last resort.
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help families build the capacity to fulfill their functions and avoid taking over family
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responsibilities unless absolutely necessary?
set realistic expectations for families to assume financial and/or caregiving
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responsibilities for dependent, seriously ill, or frail family members depending on their
family structure, resources, and life challenges?
address root causes of financial insecurity such as high child support debt, low
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literacy, low wages, and unemployment?
affect the ability of families to balance time commitments to work, family, and
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community?
Principle 2. Family stability.
Whenever possible, policies and programs should encourage and reinforce couple,
marital, parental, and family commitment and stability, especially when children are involved. Intervention in family
membership and living arrangements is usually justified only to protect family members from serious harm or at the
request of the family itself.
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strengthen commitment to couple, marital, parental, and family obligations, and
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allocate resources to help keep the marriage or family together when this is the
appropriate goal?
help families avoid problems before they become serious crises or chronic situations
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that erode family structure and function?
balance the safety and well-being of individuals with the rights and responsibilities of
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other family members and the integrity of the family as a whole?
provide clear and reasonable guidelines for when nonfamily members are permitted to
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intervene and make decisions on behalf of the family (e.g., removal of a child or adult
from the family)?
help families maintain regular routines when undergoing stressful conditions or at times
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of transition?
recognize that major changes in family relationships such as aging, divorce, or adoption
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are processes that extend over time and require continuing support and attention?
provide support to all types of families involved in the issue (e.g., for adoption,
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consider adoptive, birth, and foster parents; for remarried families, consider birth
parents, stepparents, residential and nonresidential parents, etc.)?
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