Routledge Library Editions: Family
Flats, Families and the Under-Fives
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Gittus
August 18, 2025
Originally published in 1976, Elizabeth Gittus explores two contemporary social issues which were central to future housing policy in Britain at the time: the implications, for families with young children, of both the increased use of flats in new local authority housing, and the sporadic ...
Ageing and Families: A Support Networks Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Hal L. Kendig
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this title was a landmark study of ageing in Australia and a major contribution to the study of gerontology at the time. It highlights major themes on ageing in ‘western’ industrialised societies, as well as pinpointing new, emerging themes. For instance, the initial ...
Captive Clients: Social Work with Families of Children Home on Trial
1st Edition
By June Thoburn
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980 when about a third of all British children found to be in need of statutory care were living at home ‘on trial’ with parents or relatives. Still under-researched today, little had yet been written about these children, so this book, based on a detailed study of a sample...
Changing Patterns of European Family Life: A Comparative Analysis of 14 Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Katja Boh, Maren Bak, Cristine Clason, Maja Pankratova, Jens Qvortrup, Giovanni B. Sgritta, Kari Waerness
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time. ...
Children and Families in Israel: Some Mental Health Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Arie Jarus, Joseph Marcus, Joseph Oren, Chanan Rapaport
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issues. It starts with an overview of Israel as a society and how it is similar yet differs from that the reader may be familiar with. Divided into three ...
Children in Danger: The Causes and Prevention of Baby Battering
1st Edition
By Jean Renvoize
August 01, 2025
In the early 1970s ‘baby battering’ accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured – all this in spite of the knowledge gained from the research done both in Britain and in the United States. How could such tragedies be ...
Families with a Difference: Varieties of Surrogate Parenthood
1st Edition
By Michael Humphrey, Heather Humphrey
August 01, 2025
In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number. Originally published in 1988, this book looks at these ‘alternative’ families and considers the psychological and social consequences of growing up in a family where the genetic ...
Family and Class in a London Suburb
1st Edition
By Peter Willmott, Michael Young
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here families were more often on their own than in the East End, but, despite the differences between the districts, there were some similarities. The bond...
Family and Kinship in Modern Britain
1st Edition
By Christopher Turner
August 01, 2025
In the 1960s the family had been described as ‘by far the most important primary group in society’. The primary concern of the sociologist was to understand the functioning of family life in any given society and to set his observations in the wider framework of the relation of kinship systems to ...
Family and School
1st Edition
By Daphne Johnson, Elizabeth Ransom
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1983, this book offers a perspective on the secondary school years from the standpoint at home. In the early 1980s as now, there was no shortage of advice to parents on how they should bring up their children, and what their relationship should be with the schools their ...
Give and Take in Families: Studies in Resource Distribution
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Brannen, Gail Wilson
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, now with a new preface, the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources, notably money, work, care and food, within and between households. Hitherto, social policy research had tended to roll households and families into one and consider them as ...
Going Solo: Single Mothers by Choice
1st Edition
By Jean Renvoize
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this, at the time, controversial book explores the fundamental changes in personal relationships that had taken place over the previous decade, focusing on women who had deliberately chosen to have children outside a permanent relationship. After travelling widely ...