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Introduction - family debts, biological liabilities; playing forchildren - procreation and financial liability; families in need - crisis andresponsibility; troublesome children - failure and moral liability;ethnicity, culture and parenthood - policy dilemmas; "burdensome" parents -reciprocity, rationing and needs assessment; constructing the "private" carer- daughters of reform?; "contracting out" familial liabilities; conclusion -the limits of policy intervention.