Includes bibliographical references.

"Nested responsibility" and the monitoring of children and parents in family court / Anita Ilta Garey -- "Where are you and what are you doing?" : familial back-up work as a collateral consequence of house arrest / William G. Staples -- Bring it on home : home drug testing and the relocation of the war on drugs / Dawn Moore and Kevin D. Haggerty -- Interracial surveillance and biological privilege : adoptive families in the public eye / Heather Jacobson -- Playground panopticism : ring-around-the-children, a pocketful of women / Holly Blackford -- "I saw your nanny" : gossip and shame in the surveillance of child care / Margaret K. Nelson -- The social impact of amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- Turning strangers into kin : half siblings and anonymous donors / Rosanna Hertz -- The powers of parental observation : constructing networks of care / Karen V. Hansen -- "Show me you can be a father" : maternal monitoring and recruitment of fathers for involvement in low-income families / Kevin Roy and Linda M. Burton -- Watching children : describing the use of baby monitors on Epinions.com / Margaret K. Nelson -- Policing gender boundaries : parental monitoring of preschool children's gender nonconformity / Emily W. Kane -- "I trust them but I don't trust them" : issues and dilemmas in monitoring teenagers / Demie Kurz -- The electronic tether : communication and parental monitoring during the college years / Barbara K. Hofer ... [et al.].