Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in Leeds. Kirkside East is a large,mainly white, council estate in Leeds. The Valley is a mixed tenure, mixedincome, ethnically diverse area, stretching out of Sheffield city...

Sport England is interested to know how families with children experience the following aspects ofneighbourhood life: involvement in sport; access to facilities; activities for young people; and theengagement of young people in poor areas in the Olympic development. Sport England wantedevidence...

The Year at a Glance2004 was CASE’s seventh full year.The Centre continued its high level ofactivity and output through the year.Just after the end of it, we submittedour evaluation report to ESRC, coveringall our activities since we started workin October 1997. These had resulted inmore than...

The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) is interviewing 200 families withchildren (under the ages of 18) in four low-income areas in England. Through successiverounds of interviews we are trying to understand how area conditions and area changes affectpeople who live locally. We are...

The first round of interviews with 100 families living intwo East London neighbourhoods has unearthed newinformation on problems and strengths in these areas,families’ coping strategies, and area change. Families’dissatisfaction with the areas was high, compared with thenational average. But...

There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between thehealth of poor and more affluent children in the UK do not widen over earlychildhood. One reason may be that through the universal public funded healthcare system all children have access to equally effective primary...

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

In this study we pose two broad questions: what are the characteristics ofthe currently divorced; and who divorces? Divorce is used as an inclusiveterm to include separations from marriages and from cohabiting unions.In the first part data from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe...

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United States had no national family leave legislationprior to...

East Enders tells the story of a hundred families who live in two of the lowestincome areas in the East End of London, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the...