Part I. Social-Psychological Perspectives :
-- 1. When "good enough" isn't really good enough : aiming for the "best" for all young people / Peter L. Benson and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
-- 2. Does best love of the child mean parents should facilitate a love of the sacred? / Annette Mahoney and Ken I. Pargament
-- 3. Parent-child reminiscing : creating best love through sharing stories / Robyn Fivush
Part II. Historical Perspectives :
-- 4. Raising a loving child in late medieval and early modern Europe (1400-1700) / Steven Ozment
-- 5. The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte Jr. and Heather M. Johnson
-- 6. The right to life and its application to the welfare of children in the canon law and the magisterium of the Catholic Church : 1878 to the present / Charles J. Reid Jr.
Part III. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives :
-- 7. Collective responsibility for children in an age of orphans / Cynthia Willett
-- 8. Original sin and Christian parenting : a constructive proposal / Richard R. Osmer
-- 9. "Best practices" for nurturing the best love of and by children : a Protestant theological perspective on the vocations of children and parents / Marcia J. Bunge
Part IV. Legal Perspectives :
-- 10. What's love got to do with it? (Part I) : loving children in cases of divorce or death in the Jewish tradition / Michael J. Broyde
-- 11. What's love got to do with it? (Part II) : the best interests of the child in international and comparative law / Rana Lehr-Lehnardt and T. Jeremy Gunn
-- 12. Can law shape the development of unconditional love in children? / Margaret F. Brinig and Steven L. Nock
-- 13. The best love of the child? : an integrational view / Don S. Browning.
-- 14. To Register or Not to Register?
-- 15. Children with a (Local) State
-- 1. When "good enough" isn't really good enough : aiming for the "best" for all young people / Peter L. Benson and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
-- 2. Does best love of the child mean parents should facilitate a love of the sacred? / Annette Mahoney and Ken I. Pargament
-- 3. Parent-child reminiscing : creating best love through sharing stories / Robyn Fivush
Part II. Historical Perspectives :
-- 4. Raising a loving child in late medieval and early modern Europe (1400-1700) / Steven Ozment
-- 5. The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte Jr. and Heather M. Johnson
-- 6. The right to life and its application to the welfare of children in the canon law and the magisterium of the Catholic Church : 1878 to the present / Charles J. Reid Jr.
Part III. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives :
-- 7. Collective responsibility for children in an age of orphans / Cynthia Willett
-- 8. Original sin and Christian parenting : a constructive proposal / Richard R. Osmer
-- 9. "Best practices" for nurturing the best love of and by children : a Protestant theological perspective on the vocations of children and parents / Marcia J. Bunge
Part IV. Legal Perspectives :
-- 10. What's love got to do with it? (Part I) : loving children in cases of divorce or death in the Jewish tradition / Michael J. Broyde
-- 11. What's love got to do with it? (Part II) : the best interests of the child in international and comparative law / Rana Lehr-Lehnardt and T. Jeremy Gunn
-- 12. Can law shape the development of unconditional love in children? / Margaret F. Brinig and Steven L. Nock
-- 13. The best love of the child? : an integrational view / Don S. Browning.
-- 14. To Register or Not to Register?
-- 15. Children with a (Local) State