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Over the past sixty years, the Revue française des Affaires sociales has dedicated nearly 7% of its articles to the family and Children’sWelfare Services, in the broader sense of interventions in favour of children, and not only the administrative service of Children’s Welfare Services, i.e. over 150 articles. There are three main periods. The first is that of the Revue Française du Travail, whose vocation was not to address children, but which published several articles on this theme, within the framework of social welfare applications. The second period, that of the 1970s, is incomparably denser: the authors, most of whom are civil administrators, provide an account of the principle administrative laws and new problems linked to children’s welfare: the reform of the Children’s Welfare Service, the situation of immigrants’ children, and the integration handicapped children. The third period, beginning in the very end of the 1970s, and more so with the left’s coming to power, transformed the Revue into a benchmark review for analyses by scientists (sociologists and demographers, as well as political scientists, etc.) of major social problems posed by the evolution of familial configurations, new situations for children and the social policies applied to them. This orientation has not been refuted since then, and gives an ever increasing importance to analyses and European and worldwide events. Despite its richness, the revue has let a few subjects pass by, at times because it was not paying thorough attention to the events in what is usually called civil society.