title: Caring, social policy, and homelessness.
abstract: Care theory offers a way to overcome a weakness of liberalism--its reluctance to intervene in the private lives of adults. In caring for the homeless, we must sometimes use a limited form of coercion, but our intervention is always interactive, and the process of finding a solution is one of negotiation between the needs expressed by the homeless and the needs we infer for them.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, USA.
authors.forename: Nel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Noddings
mesh_terms: D003068:Coercion; D004645:Empathy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D011640:Public Policy; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States