Children and Families

All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century (co-editor with Mary Ann Mason and Arlene Skolnick) Oxford University Press, 1998; revised and expanded Second Edition, 2002
Divorce Reform at the Crossroads (co-editor with Herma Hill Kay) Yale University Press, 1990

“Framing Public Interventions With Respect to Children as Parent-Empowering” in Raising Children (N. Gilbert and J. Berrick, eds., Oxford University Press 2008)
“Who Counts as an American Family?” in Family and the Law in the 21st Century (Festschrift in honor of Koji Ono) 943-963 (Tokyo, 2007)
“Introduction” (with Mary Ann Mason and Arlene Skolnick) in All Our Families, M. Mason, A. Skolnick and S. Sugarman, eds., 1-12, Oxford University Press (1998)
“Single Parent Families” in All Our Families, M. Mason, A. Skolnick and S. Sugarman, eds., 13-38, Oxford University Press (1998) (reprinted in Shifting the Center (2nd ed), Susan J. Ferguson, ed., Mayfield Publishing Company 2001)
“Current Controversies in American Family Law” in The Civil Law in the 21st Century (Festschrift in honor of Koji Ono) 844 (Hougakushoin, Tokyo, 1996)
“Dividing Financial Interests on Divorce” in Divorce Reform at the Crossroads, S. Sugarman and H. Kay, eds. Yale University Press 1990
“Forcing Welfare Mothers to Cooperate with State Officials in Obtaining Child Support for Their Illegitimate Children,” an original case study published as four chapters in Mnookin et al, In the Interest of Children, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1985, reprinted by Harvard Law School Project on Negotiation, 1996

“Influencing the Preferences of Children through Legal Impacts on Parenting Style” Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2021 forthcoming)
“What Is A ‘Family’? Conflicting Messages from Our Public Programs” 42 Family Law Quarterly 231-261 (2008)
“Family Law for the Next Century” 27 Family Law Quarterly 175 (1993) (and editor of Special Conference Issue, Family Law Quarterly, Summer 1993)
“Deciding What’s Best for Children” (with John E. Coons and Robert H. Mnookin) 7 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 465 (1993)
“Puzzling Over Children’s Rights” (with John E. Coons and Robert H. Mnookin) 1991 Brigham Young University Law Review 307