"Are friends the new family? Is friendship an increasingly socially significant relationship? Are people's idea's of who really matters in their personal lives changing? In the March edition of ESRC's The Edge, Sasha Roseneil describes her research, which suggests far-reaching changes are indeed taking place (issue 15)

Simon Duncan and Ros Edwards on mothers, paid work and childcare in Anna-Karin Kollind and Abby Peterson (eds.) Thoughts on Family, Gender, Generation and Class: A Festschrift to Ulla Björnberg. Reproduced with kind permission from the Department of Sociology, Göteborg University.

Mary MacLeod, Chief Executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI) and CAVA Advisory Group member, writes about the Government’s failure to define the boundaries between family and state in the ESRC’s June edition of The Edge (issue 13).