Children In Families

Julia Brannen, Margaret O'Brien

• The postmodern child, Chris Jenks; the politics of children's rights, Jeremy Roche; strategies and structures - towards a new perspective on children's experiences of family life, Allison James and Alan Prout; the challenge in child research - from being to doing, Anne Solberg; demographic change and the family situation of children, Lynda Clarke; children's constructions of family and kinship, Margaret O'Brien, Pam Alldred and Deborah Jones; helping out - children's labour participation in Chinese take-away businesses in Britain, Miri Song; discourses of adolescence - young people's independence and autonomy within families, Julia Brannen; conceptualising parenting from the standpoint of children - relationship and transition in the life course, Pat Allatt; the economic circumstances of children in ten countries, Steven Kennedy, Peter Whiteford and Jonathan Bradshaw; family, state and social policy for children in Greece, Theodoros Papadopoulos; the crumbling bridges between childhood and adulthood, Hilary Land; teenage pregnancy - do social policies make a difference?, Peter Selman and Caroline Glendinning.