Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Families and the Social Order from the Old Regime to the Civil Code -- 2 Seduction and Courtroom Encounters in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 Find the Fathers, Save the Children, 1870-1912 -- 4 Courts Attribute Paternity, 1912-1940 -- 5 Families Dismantled and Reconstituted, 1880-1940 -- 6 Paternity and the Family, 1940 to the Present -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.