Chapter 1 The Family and the State: An Introduction

Chapter 3 Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: Social Steering and the Personal Sphere

Chapter 4 Family Breakdown, Individualism and the Issue of the Relationship between Family Law and Behaviour in Post-War Britain

Chapter 5 Lone Parents and Child Support: Parental and State Responsibilities

Chapter 6 Family Change and the Ageing Welfare State

Chapter 7 Black Families and Survival

Chapter 8 And One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts: the Five Ages of Impairment

Chapter 9 Scapegoating and Moral Panics: Teenage Pregnancy in Britain and the United States

Chapter 10 Youth, Dependence and the Problem of Support