In 1992, Random House commissioned Fatherhood Reclaimed: the making of the modern father which she wrote while Research Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Her ground-breaking policy document Men and their Children: proposals for public policy was published by IPPR in 1996. Fatherhood Reclaimed appeared a year later to great acclaim, and is now a mass-market paperback in the UK, Australia and South Africa and, in translation, all over Europe.