Members of the International Association of Outcome-Based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children Services (IaOBERfcs) report results from their research in eight countries, including national and cross-national studies, on proposals to improve the evidence base needed to advance children and family services. Their topics include demystifying the evidence in child welfare, evaluating complexity in community-based programs, approaches to evaluation in services for families and children, challenges of using administrative data in cross-national evaluations of services for children in out-of-home care, identifying outcomes at the Sunshine Family Centre in outer London, and assessing practice in a child and family center in Australia. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)