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Substantive articles in this newsletter issue concern: (1) issues related to reproductive technology; (2) marriage and family questions for the 1986 census; (3) fault and violence in the family court; (4) children and young people in institutional care; (5) marriage counseling initiatives; (6) employment and families; and (7) family life in European countries. Brief articles also report the use of the Institute of Family Studies' online database as a public access file and describe this organization's publication program. Supplementary materials provide the texts of official addresses and summarize papers given at the Twentieth International Seminar on Social Change and Family Policies. Seminar sessions focused on pressures, conflicts, and expectations of family life; major demographic trends affecting family policy; families with children and social policy approaches to family support and education; worldwide trends in the administration of family policy; youth policies and the family/work/education relationship; work, economic policies, and welfare consequences and responsibilities; intergenerational exchange, aging trends and public/private support dimensions; and legal regulation of the family and the effect of changes in family law. (RH)