This seventh and concluding volume in a series containing the proceedings of the 1983 Australian Family Research Conference contains a panel discussion on policy making as well as the conference's closing address. Panel discussion members were Austin Asche, Peter Bailey, Jonathon Bradshaw, Marie Coleman, Lionel Murphy, David Scott, Pat Troy, and Malcolm Wicks. The discussion highlights the difficulties faced by both policy makers and those who provide them with information. The path from a family policy decision to the actual enactment of the policy is a very difficult one. In the closing address of the conference Don Edgar stresses the need for researchers to search for causes underlying changes in family structure by looking beyond the family itself at the underlying constructs that explain the changes. He suggests that perhaps social conditions now require a new family form. The volume concludes with a list of speakers and a subject index to the entire seven volumes. (RM)