Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Parenting After the Century of the Child: Introduction -- 2 Parenthood and Childhood: Debates within the Social Sciences -- Part I: Travelling Ideals about Relatedness, Family and Parenting Obligations -- 3 What is a Good Mother? Historical Shifts, Divergent Models in Urban Japan -- 4 No School without Foster Families in Northern Benin: A Social Historical Approach -- 5 Growing up Nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' Visionsof Family, Parenting and Gender Roles -- Part II: Negotiating Responsibilities in Education and Child Welfare Institutions -- 6 Child Welfare, Biopower and Mestizo Relatedness in Quito, Ecuador -- 7 'In the Best Interests of the Child': Intergenerational Legacies of Past Aboriginal -- 8 Privatizing Parenthood - Modernizing Childhood? Paradoxes of School Reform in Eastern Germany -- 9 Representations of Parenting Practices of Native and Immigrant Families -- Part III: Translating International Legislation to Local Settings -- 10 Custody and Coming of Age: Three American Cases -- 11 Child Rights or Wrongs: Dilemmas in Implementing Support for Children in the Kilimanjaro Region -- Index.