Understanding the family / 
edited by John Muncie [and others]. 
 - Second revised edition. 
 - viii, 327  pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - Family life and social policy .
 - Family life and social policy. .
<br/><br/> Open University course D311, book 1/2.  "First published as two books in 1993 by the Open University"--T.p. verso.  "First revised edition published in 1995.". 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Introduction: Public Definitions and Private Lives --  Politics, Policy and the Law --  Issues in the Study of 'The Family' --  Family Policy and Political Discourse --  Families and the Law --  Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities --  Interactions and Identities --  Constructing Family Life: Family Belief Systems --  Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics: The Case of Parenting --  The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life --  A Feminist Looks at the Family --  Endnote: Public and Private --  Index.  Pt. 1.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Pt. 2.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761953078 9780761953074 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96069546 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families.<br/>Families--Great Britain<br/>Family policy--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ518  / .U53 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.850941