Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to understanding the experience of children who are experiencing parental separation. This book provides an in-depth account of how children are actively involved in the process of divorce and how they shape that experience. The topics discussed include how children find out that their parents are separating; how children tell other people about what is happening to them and their family; how parent-child relationships change after...

Scandals do not just happen. They are made. They are constructed out of such everyday tragedies as the small carelessnesses and institutional brutality of the long stay hospital, the abuse of children or the violent deaths of innocent bystanders. This book, by examining the landmark scandals of the postwar period, reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used and whose interests they are made to serve.

In particular, it examines the role of the public inquiry, an increasingly familiar policy device in the process whereby the story of a particular scandal is told and...

This fast moving adventure story is set in the late 1830's. James Forester has a score to settle with a certain Captain Spence, and to this end he volunteers for service in a Royal Navy ship under an assumed name. Although his objective is challenging enough, he gradually discovers that he is not the only one with a mission, and soon becomes involved in a complex web of intrigue involving criminals on both sides of the Atlantic. The action moves from England to the eastern seaboard of the US and thence to California. There he realises that the real struggle has been within himself: a problem...