The nuclear family is both crucible and product of capitalism and modernity, carried forth and
modified across generations through ordinary communicative and other social practices …

The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the
key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on …

Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing
prominence of fathers' rights groups and the introduction of social policies, such as paternity …

This article focuses on intimacy in terms of its analytical potential for understanding social
change without the one-nation blinkers sometimes referred to as 'methodological …

Mobile applications (" apps") developed to promote online safety for children are
underutilized and rely heavily on parental control features that monitor and restrict their …

Researching Intimacy in Families is an incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and
kin relationships and the methods used to research family life and childhood. Families have …

Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody
and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others …

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or
develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a …

Objective To assess progress in meeting young people's sex education needs in Britain by
examining the current situation and changes over the past 20 years in sources of information …

'The book offers a thorough overview both of long-standing debates around gender and
sexuality and of current issues. It nicely locates the debates within the sociological tradition …