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• Financial implications of the death of a child. Anne Corden, Roy Sainsbury and Patricia Sloper
  April 2001 * A4 * 1-901455-41-6 * £12.95
• Pulling together, pulling apart: the family lives of young people. Val Gillies, Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Janet Holland.
  April 2001 * A4 * 1-901455-38-6 * 60pp * 20 tables * £12.95
• Family understandings: closeness, authority and independence in families with teenagers. Wendy Langford, Charlie Lewis, Yvette Solomon and Jo Warin.
  March 2001 * A4 * 1-901455-43-2 * 56pp * 3 tables * 5 figures * £12.95
• Cohabitation breakdown. Carol Smart and Pippa Stevens.
  April 2000 * A4 * 1-901455-38-6 * 60pp * 20 tables * £12.95.
• How parents cope financially on marriage breakdown. Alison Perry, Gillian Douglas, Mervyn Murch, Kay Bader and Margaret Borkowski
  April 2000 * A4 * 1-901455-40-8 * 40pp * 15 tables * £10.95
• Families and the labour market. Edited by Shirley Dex.
  A4 * 88pp * 28 tables * 10 figures * December 1999 * 1-901455-39-4 * £14.95
• Fathers, Marriage and the Law. Ros Pickford.
  A4 * 48pp * 5 tables * 13 figures * 1-901455-37-8 * September 1999 * £10.95
• Father, work and family life. Jo Warin, Yvette Solomon, Charlie Lewis and Wendy Langford.
  A4 * 48pp * 1 table, 15 figures * 1-901455-36-X * June 1999 * £10.95
• Making child maintenance regimes work. Anne Corden.
  A4 * 80pp * 14 tables * 4 figures * 1-901455-35-1 * June 1999 * £13.95
• Choosing childlessness. Fiona McAllister with Lynda Clarke.
  A4 * 72pp * 1-901455-12-2 * July 1998 * £11.95
• Step-parenting in the 1990s. Elsa Ferri and Kate Smith.
  A4 * 64pp * 1-901455-14-9 * June 1998 * £9.95
• Families and kinship. Francis McGlone, Alison Park and Kate Smith.
  A4 * 36pp * 1-901455-13-0 * May 1998 * £9.95
• Caring to work: accounts of working parents with disabled children. Carolyn Kagan, Suzan Lewis and Patricia Heaton.
  A4 * 64pp * 1-901455-09-2 * May 1998 * £9.95
• The family background of homeless young people. Joan Smith, Sheila Gilford and Ann O'Sullivan.
  A4 * 60pp * 1-901455-06-8 * March 1998 * £9.95
• Young single fathers: participation in fatherhood - barriers and bridges. Suzanne Speak, Stuart Cameron and Rose Gilroy.
  A4 * 40pp * 1-901455-10-6 * December 1997 * £9.95
• Exceptional childhoods, unexceptional children: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties. Tim Booth and Wendy Booth.
  An exploration of the personal outcomes for now-adult children who grew up with a parent or parents with learning difficulties.
  A4 * 44pp * 1-901455-00-9 * April 1997 * £9.95
• Parenting in the 1990s. Elsa Ferri and Kate Smith.
  A4 * 0-907051-98-7 * November 1996 * £9.50
• Family Obligations in Europe. Jane Millar and Andrea Warman.
  A4 * 56pp * 0-907051-97-9 * November 1996 * £9.50
• The Employment of Lone Parents: a comparison of policy in 20 countries. Jonathan Bradshaw et al.
  Uses data from the 15 EU states, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the USA to look at factors that encourage, and discourage, lone parents to work outside the home.
  A4 * 64pp * 0-907051-95-2 * May 1996 * £9.50
• Small Change: the impact of the Child Support Act on lone mothers and children. Karen Clarke, Gary Craig and Caroline Glendinning.
  Describes the impact of the 1991 Child Support Act on the lives of a sample of 53 lone mothers on means-tested benefit and their children.
  A4 * 48pp * 0-907051-93-6 * April 1996 * £9.50
• Learning to be a Parent: a survey of group-based parenting programmes. Celia Smith and Gillian Pugh.
  Describes the findings of a survey of group-based parenting programmes, courses and materials.
  A4 * 56pp * 0-907051-90-1 * February 1996 * £9.50
• Dependence and Independence in the finances of women aged 33. Heather Joshi, Angela Dale, Clare Ward and Hugh Davies.
  A4 * 66pp * 0-907051-89-8 * November 1995 * £9.50
• Single Lone Mothers: problems, prospects and policies. Louie Burghes. A study of the varying circumstances of single, never-married mothers, and of the implications for the development of social policy to address their diverse needs.
  A4 * 72pp * 0-907051-84-7 * October 1995 * £9.50
• Young Single Mothers: barriers to independent living. Suzanne Speak et al.
  Identifies the main problems faced by young mothers establishing a secure and suitable home for themselves and their children as they are catapulted simultaneously into independent adulthood and motherhood, often with limited family support.
  A4 * 64pp * 0-907051-85-5 * July 1995 * £9.50
• Nutrition and Diet in Lone-Parent Families in London. Elizabeth Dowler and Claire Calvert.
  Asks whether nutritional deprivation is also a part of the poverty so generally experienced by lone-parent families, and investigates the strategies adopted by lone parents for making ends meet.
  A4 * 60pp * 0-907051-79-0 * February 1995 * £9.50
• Family Support for Young People. Gill Jones
  A qualitative study that examines a small group of Scottish young people's relationships with their families of origin as they make the transition to adult life.
  A4 * 36pp * 0-907051-78-2 * Jan 1995 * £7.50
• Diet, Choice and Poverty: social, cultural and nutritional aspects of food consumption among low-income families. Barbara Dobson et al.
  A detailed description of the food-related ideas, preferences, priorities and choices of those living on low incomes. Pays attention to the sources of information about food, patterns of purchasing, consumption and distribution, and families' adaptations to low income.
  A4 * 36pp * 0-907051-75-8 * November 1994 * £7.50
• Excluding Primary School Children. Carl Parsons et al.
  An urgent, focused evaluation of the effect of exclusion as experienced by 11 children, their families, and those drawn in to the management of the situation in an official capacity.
  A4 * 64pp * 0-907051-76-6 * November 1994 * £9.50
• The Exeter Family Study. Family breakdown and its impact on children. Monica Cockett and John Tripp.
  Presents research on the outcomes for children who have experienced either family disruption or lived with a lone parent or both. (Published by the University of Exeter Press)
  A4 * 96pp * 0-85989-473-8 * November 1994 * £9.50