From the research available in America and Britain it would appear that the men who father
children by teenage mothers tend to be a few years older than their teenage partners …

Background While evidence on the cost of mental illness is growing, little is known about the
cost-effectiveness of programmes in the areas of mental health promotion (MHP) and mental …

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an intensive home
visiting programme in improving outcomes for vulnerable families. Design: Multicentre …

Although living standards have increased in the past 40 years, children's behaviour
problems have become worse. Good parenting can help by maximising children's potential …

Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and
there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well. This volume …

The situation of young fathers has been systematically associated in the literature with
poverty, school drop-out and paternal disinvolvement. Very few studies on this phenomenon …

Introduction Economic evaluation has an important role to play in the demonstration of value
for money of early childhood public health interventions; however, concerns have been …

Literature in the child abuse and child protection arena has tended to adopt either a practice
or legal perspective. Drawing on their expertise as researchers and leaders in their field …

A focused literature review was undertaken in the summer of 2004 for the National
Evaluation of the Children's Fund on early intervention, preventative strategies for black and …

This paper focuses on contemporary British public policy and how social policies and
feminist-informed family therapy are influencing and challenging each other. The concept …