In this thesis, we have dwelt upon the family subject in Turkish children?s novels in literature written over a thirty five-year period between 1970 and 2005. We have analysed social-related children?s novels in the context of a specific sample model which has been created by considering the above-mentioned time period. This thesis is comprised of three main parts except for introduction and conclusion parts. In the first part of the thesis; we have analysed the definition of children?s literature, its types, the place and the main role of novels in it, its development process in Turkey and throughout the world, the position and the role of families in children?s literature during the period of time up to the 1970s. In the second part; we have analysed the importance of families sociologically, its functions and types; furthermore, we have considered its structural transformation in Turkey. The third part fundamentally consists of the main concern of the thesis. We have examined some different functions of families in the relevant novel samples, relationships among the family members in terms of children, typical problems of families, the relationships between families and their close environment. As a consequence, the social form of the relevant period and the concept of family in children?s novels written in that period have generally had the same regular pattern.

Because of the socio-economic problems caused by the unemployment at the end of the 19. century,public employment agencies appeared in developed countries. They werw organized to be non-pofit publicaegncies that provided the unemployment with appropriate jobs andprovided the employee seekers with labour.Today there are public employment agencies almost in every country, but the rapid growth in technologicalimprovements and globalization has resulted with the inefficiency of these public employment agencies bythemselves which forced the existence of other service providers apart from publicitiy in presentation ofemployment services. In the environment of economic liberalization and globalization in 1990s, ILO abandonedthe mentality of momopoly in public employment agencies and it accepted the private employment agenciestogether with the reorganizations that would positively support to the process of the labour market anddetermined the rules in the reorganization of private employment agencies.Employment services in Turkey had been affected by these developments, it had become difficult to finda job in the labour market, companies had difficulty in finding qualified workers. Because of the increasingunemployment rates İŞKUR whose main duties are to form national employment policies, protection anddevelopment of employment, help the prevention of unemployment; cannot satisfy the demands and this led tothe need for job and labour finding services to break out of govenment monopoly. In the 90. article of labourlaw numbered 4857 which is named ?Interagency in Job and Labour Finding?; the duty of interagency in joband labour finding is organized by İŞKUR and private employment agencies that are allowed. Therefore theagencies which function un officially under the name of consultancy agencies were provided to work in theframe of a legal organization and the rules determined and to reach a complementary level for İŞKUR.In this work, the appearance of private employment agencies depending on the developing structure ofemployment, the legal organizations about privete employment agencies in Turkey and the statistic data onthese agencies' functions are stated. A situational determination on the functions of privete employmentagencies in Turkey has been tried to be made with the use of the statistical data till the end of the term fromJune 2004 to 2006.