2. Adoption support and the negotiation of ambivalence in family policy and children’s services: Barry Luckock.

3. Making and Breaking Family Life: Adoption, the State and Human Rights: Sonia Harris-Short.

4. The state as parent: The reluctant parent? The problems of parents of last resort: Judith Masson.

5. Child Maltreatment in Diverse Households: Challenges to Child Care Law, Theory and Practice: Julia Brophy.

6. Perspectives on Parenting Responsibility: Contextualising Values and Practices: Val Gillies.

7. Holding Parents to Account: Tough on Children, Tough on the Causes of Children?: Laurence Koffman.

8. Youth Crime: Whose Responsibility?: Alex Newbury.

9. Governing Parenting: Is there a case for a policy review and statement of parenting rights and responsibilities?: Clem Henricson.

10. The ‘Change for Children’ Agenda in England: Towards the ‘Preventive-Surveillance State’: Nigel Parton