Children, Young People and Families - Research

Combining social, psychological and child development aspects, this book provides a holistic view of how children develop agency.

This book looks at political attempts to create a 'modern family' and the aspiration to regulate the family and establish gender equality, examining the regulation of the family in Sweden between 1930 and today.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.

Child welfare, state welfare and parenting issues are high on the UK policy agenda; this timely book examines recent policy developments, parental perspectives about parenting and child-rearing and parental rights to 'welfare state support'.

This book describes the local and national politics, professional concerns and public interest that surrounded the inquiry following the death of Maria Colwell in 1973.

Based on a unique longitudinal study, this timely book examines the initiatives introduced to help families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy.

A unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern culture.

This book is a challenge to the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, suggesting that it should be understood at the level of the child, rather than a list of things that are needed in order to live well.

This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty. 

This unique volume brings together the main findings from the Nuffield Foundation's Changing Adolescence Programme and explores how social change may affect young people's behaviour, mental health and transitions toward adulthood.

This book takes a life course perspective, analysing and comparing the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries in context.

Social capital, children and young people is about the relationships and networks - social capital - that children and young people have in and out of school.