SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY and LYNN JAMIESON are co-directors of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) (http://www.crfr.ac.uk) a cross-university consortium committed to linking academics, policy makers and practitioners and stimulating high quality research on families and relationships. - Sarah Cunningham-Burley is a reader in Community Health Science and researches families and health. Her recent publications include Exploring the Body (Palgrave 2001, edited with K.Milburn). - Lynn Jamieson teaches Sociology. Her publications include Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies (1998).

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Family and the State: an Introduction; L.Jamieson & S.Cunningham-Burley PART ONE: DEBATING FAMILY STATE RELATIONS The State and the Family; J.Finch Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: Social Steering and the Personal Sphere; J.J.Rodger Family Breakdown, Individualism and the Issue of the Relationship between Family Law and Behaviour in Post-War Britain; J.Lewis PART TWO: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE ACROSS THE LIFECOURSE Lone Parents and Child Support: Parental and State Responsibilities; K.Clarke Family Change and the Ageing Welfare State; A.Tapper PART THREE: CHALLENGING THE STATE FRAMING OF SOCIAL ISSUES Black Families and Survivial Strategies; B.Prevatt-Goldstein And One Man in his Time Plays Many Parts: The Five Ages of Impairment; T.Shakespeare & N.Watson Scapegoating and Moral Panics: Teenage Pregnancy in Britain and the United States 1959-1999; P.Selman Youth, Dependence and the Problem of Support; G.Jones

SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY and LYNN JAMIESON are co-directors of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) (http://www.crfr.ac.uk) a cross-university consortium committed to linking academics, policy makers and practitioners and stimulating high quality research on families and relationships. - Sarah Cunningham-Burley is a reader in Community Health Science and researches families and health. Her recent publications include Exploring the Body (Palgrave 2001, edited with K.Milburn). - Lynn Jamieson teaches Sociology. Her publications include Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies (1998).

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Family and the State: an Introduction; L.Jamieson & S.Cunningham-Burley PART ONE: DEBATING FAMILY STATE RELATIONS The State and the Family; J.Finch Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: Social Steering and the Personal Sphere; J.J.Rodger Family Breakdown, Individualism and the Issue of the Relationship between Family Law and Behaviour in Post-War Britain; J.Lewis PART TWO: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE ACROSS THE LIFECOURSE Lone Parents and Child Support: Parental and State Responsibilities; K.Clarke Family Change and the Ageing Welfare State; A.Tapper PART THREE: CHALLENGING THE STATE FRAMING OF SOCIAL ISSUES Black Families and Survivial Strategies; B.Prevatt-Goldstein And One Man in his Time Plays Many Parts: The Five Ages of Impairment; T.Shakespeare & N.Watson Scapegoating and Moral Panics: Teenage Pregnancy in Britain and the United States 1959-1999; P.Selman Youth, Dependence and the Problem of Support; G.Jones

SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY and LYNN JAMIESON are co-directors of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) (http://www.crfr.ac.uk) a cross-university consortium committed to linking academics, policy makers and practitioners and stimulating high quality research on families and relationships. - Sarah Cunningham-Burley is a reader in Community Health Science and researches families and health. Her recent publications include Exploring the Body (Palgrave 2001, edited with K.Milburn). - Lynn Jamieson teaches Sociology. Her publications include Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies (1998).

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Family and the State: an Introduction; L.Jamieson & S.Cunningham-Burley PART ONE: DEBATING FAMILY STATE RELATIONS The State and the Family; J.Finch Family Life, Moral Regulation and the State: Social Steering and the Personal Sphere; J.J.Rodger Family Breakdown, Individualism and the Issue of the Relationship between Family Law and Behaviour in Post-War Britain; J.Lewis PART TWO: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE ACROSS THE LIFECOURSE Lone Parents and Child Support: Parental and State Responsibilities; K.Clarke Family Change and the Ageing Welfare State; A.Tapper PART THREE: CHALLENGING THE STATE FRAMING OF SOCIAL ISSUES Black Families and Survivial Strategies; B.Prevatt-Goldstein And One Man in his Time Plays Many Parts: The Five Ages of Impairment; T.Shakespeare & N.Watson Scapegoating and Moral Panics: Teenage Pregnancy in Britain and the United States 1959-1999; P.Selman Youth, Dependence and the Problem of Support; G.Jones