Includes bibliographical references and index.

The right to responsible parents / Michael Freeman -- Together forever? : the rights and responsibilities of adult children and their parents / Jonathan Herring -- Being a responsible mother : new labour policy discourses versus lone mothers' contextualised accounts / Harriet Churchill -- State responsibility and the abuse of vulnerable older people : is there a case for a public law to protect vulnerable older people from abuse? / John Williams -- Responsible children and children's responsibilities : sibling caretaking and babysitting by school-age children / Virginia Morrow -- Being responsible, becoming responsible, and having responsibility thrust upon them : constructing the "responsibility" of children and parents / Heather Keating -- Responsibility, children, and childhood / Adrian James -- Engaging fathers' responsibility, law, and the "problem of fatherhood" / Richard Collier -- Responsible fathers : paternity, the blood tie and family responsibility / Craig Lind -- Being responsible : "good" parents and children's autonomy / Amanda Wade -- Parental responsibility, responsible parenting, and legal regulation / Jo Bridgeman -- Family law and family responsibility / Alison Diduck.