Current Perspectives in Psychological, Legal and Ethical Issues.

Family relations produce some of the most profound conflicts in modern life. The creation and dissolution of family ties spark off fundamental human emotions that frequently clash with alarming force and leave a tangle of legal and ethical complications. "Children and Families" has been chosen as the subject of this new series' inaugural volumes because the problems currently besetting the family, and particularly those afflicting its younger members, are equally challenging to students of psychology, law and ethics. Although these volumes may provide a few answers to questions on topics such as surrogate parenting, social policy or child abuse, its more important function will be to facilitate the interdisciplinary exchange of insight and information that appears to be necessary effectively to resolve complicated social issues.