Introduction -- Part I. Becoming a Parent -- 1. The position of the father in European legislation / Marie-Thérèse Meulders-Klein -- 2. The French 'tradition' of anonymous birth: the lines of argument / Nadine Lefaucheur -- 3. Families, assisted reproduction and the law / Rebecca Probert -- 4. Do parents influence the sexual orientation of their children? Findings from a longitudinal study of lesbian families / Susan Golombok and Fiona Tasker -- Part II. The Status and Obligations of Parenthood -- 5. Are parents morally obliged to care for their own children? /John Eekelaar -- 6. Conceptions of parental autonomy / Colin M. Macleod -- 7. The myth of parental rights / Phillip Montague -- Part III. Issues of Upbringing -- 8. Whose life is it anyway? / Michael Freeman -- 9. Religion, culture and conviction 7F 13 the medical treatment of young children / Caroline Bridge -- 10. Punishing parents for the crimes of their children / Raymond Arthur -- 11. Am I my child's keeper? Parental liability in negligence / Stanley Yeo -- 12. Family values in the classroom? Reconciling parental wishes and children's rights in state schools / Laura Lundy --

Part IV. Adolescence -- 13. Rearing adolescents in contemporary society / Stephen A. Small and Gay Eastman -- 14. The parenting of adolescents in Britain today / John C. Coleman -- 15. Rethinking Gillick / Michael Freeman -- Part V. Child Support -- 16. Unwilling fathers and abortion: terminating men's child support obligations / Sally Sheldon -- 17. A theory of child support / Scott Altman -- Part VI. Parental Separation, Divorce and Children -- 18. Parental predivorce relations and offspring postdivorce well-being / Alan Booth and Paul R. Amato -- 19. Inter-parental conflict and children's adaptation to separation and divorce: theory, research and implications for family law, practice and policy / Gordon T. Harold and Mervyn Murch -- 20. Child custody in the age of children's rights: the search for a just and workable standard / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse -- 21. Parent-child contact in Australia: exploring 5 different post-separation patterns of parenting / Bruce Smyth --

Part VII. Child Abuse and State Intervention -- 22. Lessons from America? Learning from child protection policy in the USA / Caroline Keenan -- 23. Children's rights and the use of physical force / Jane Fortin -- 24. What do we know about child neglect? A critical review of the literature and its application to social work practice / Karen Tanner and Danielle Turney -- 25. Emotional signs / Stephen Wolkind -- Part VIII. Social Parenthood and Adoption -- 26. Cinderella's challenge 7F 13 adjustment to stepfamilies in the 1990s / Galia Bar-Hava and Jan Pryor -- 27. Parental responsibility and parenting 7F 13 the needs of accommodated children in long-term foster-care / Gillian Schofield -- 28. The legal management of (social) parenthood: adoption and Dutch family policy / Carolus van Nijnatten and Willibrord de Graaf -- 29. Adoption: the nature of policy shifts in England and Wales, 19727F 132002 / Jane Lewis