ABSTRACT
We are now fast approaching the twenty-first century and also, but more slowly and uncertainly, attempting to make the necessary plans and policies which will take us into the future in a world which is becoming increasingly ecologically and economically unstable. In this book until now there has been no attempt made to address the sociopolitical level directly, but this can no longer be ignored, and therefore this last chapter will attempt to consider, albeit briefly, the role of the state in relation to divorcing families, and, though to a lesser extent, those re-formed extended families whose difficulties eventually lead to some state intervention.
