Introduction -- Digging Up Family History: Myths, Realities, and Works-in-Progress -- Images of the Family, Then and Now -- The Changing Faces of Fatherhood -- Child Abuse in Context: An Historian's Perspective -- The Rise and Fall of Adolescence -- Towards a History of Mid-life: Preliminary Notes and Reflections -- Old Age in Early New England -- History of Formation of Social Policy Toward Children: A Case Study -- Index.