Samantha Punch is a senior lecturer in Sociology in the School of Applied Social Science at Stirling University. Her research interests include rural childhoods and youth migration in Latin America and Asia, children’s food practices, sibling relationships and birth order in Scotland. Her recent publications include Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth (Routledge: 2007) and Sociology (with Harden, Marsh, Keating, Pearson: 2013). E. Kay M. Tisdall is Professor of Childhood Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is Programme Director of the MSc in Childhood Studies) and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.