Understanding the Family

Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embeddedundefined - Child and Family Social Work

This revised and updated introductory text presents an accessible, interdisciplinary account of how undefinedthe familyundefined is constituted in the undefinedpublicundefined and undefinedprivateundefined spheres.

Drawing in a wide range of theoretical perspectives from sociology, social policy, psychology and psychoanalysi