This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood.

Introducation: Theorizing Childhood and Family Change 1. Children's Changing Families and Circumstances: Increasing Diversification and Inequality? 2. Children's Perspectives on Middle Class Work-Family Arrangements 3. Changing Labour Markets and Changing Families 4. Father Presence in Child Care 5. Children's Experiences of their Parents' Divorce 6. Children Coping with Parental Divorce: What Helps, What Hurts? 7. As Fair as it Can be? Childhood After Divorce 8. Children's Stories - As Told and Between the Lines: Children and Fathers in Parental Break-up 9. For Children's Sake: Symbolic Power Lost? 10. Childhood and Family Time: A Historically Changing Relationship Afterword: Changing Childhood - A Case Study