This text examines current social and political issues involving childhood. It looks at the impact of the "New Right" who talk of family values, parent power in

That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues

Thatcher?s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool,

Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first cent