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Caring for Mom and Dad: Parent Dependency and American Social Policy, book talk with Susan Stein-Roggenbuck

February 24 @ 3:30 pm 5:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of Professor Stein-Roggenbuck’s book, which examines how 20th century U.S. social policies
addressed the needs of aging parents who could no longer work and lacked financial security.

February 24 | 3:30-5 p.m.
Old Horticulture, Room 255

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck is Professor in the James Madison College and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at MSU. She teaches first-year writing and courses in immigration, gender politics, and social policy. She is the author of Negotiating Relief: The Development of Social Welfare in Depression-Era Michigan, 1930-1940 and
Caring for Mom and Dad: Parent Dependency and American Social Policy. She also has published articles in the
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of Social Policy, and Social Service Review.