problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families …

This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily … responsible for elderlypeople’s living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private andpublic income transfers to elderly …

Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the families are lone parents and half are from an ethnic minoritybackground … havevery little control, and parents are upset by difficult housing andenvironmental conditions that they feel powerless to …

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in … children, but most families valued theirlocal community.[...] …

council estate four miles from the centre of Leeds. It is predominantly councilrented, housing low-income, mainly white …

,started in April 2003.• In an initial interview in March 2003details of income and circumstanceswere collected. Each family … nominateda main respondent, who was trainedin completing income diaries (eachcovering two weeks). The respondentswere then … telephoned fortnightlythroughout the 2003-04 financial yearto collect details of income in each ofthe previous two weeks …