Chapter 1 Investing in Children? Changes in Policies Concerning Children and Families in European Countries

Chapter 2 Understanding Gender Economic Inequality Across Welfare Regimes

Chapter 3 Neighborhoods and Families

Chapter 4 Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck Take a Mediterranean Cruise Together?

Chapter 5 Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State

Chapter 6 The Erosion of “Familism” in the Spanish Welfare State: Childcare Policy Since 1975

Chapter 7 Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1880s–2008

Chapter 8 Gender, Family and Children at the Crossroads of Social Policy Reform in Turkey: Alternating Between Familialism and Individualism

Chapter 9 Gender, Children and Families in the Greek Welfare State