Parenting news: archive
Lib Dems announce free parenting classes
Sunday Times, 18 September 2011
Free parenting classes are to be offered to all families with children under the age of five in a new scheme announced at the Lib Dem conference.
Come back ‘Superwoman’: the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work
Guardian, 17 September 2011
The ideal of the 'Superwoman' juggling motherhood and work has been scotched. Now the pressure on women is to be perfect carers, with careers like a dirty secret. By Zoe Williams.
Why parents shouldn’t feel guilty if they can’t devote time to their toddlers
The Observer, 11 September 2011
Critics are rejecting the theory that children need close attention in their first three years, dismissing neuroscience as 'neurotrash'. By Viv Groskop.
The London riots were not a product of permissiveness
spiked, 30 August 2011
Blaming the looting on the ‘liberal experiment’ of the 1960s is not only wrong - it could also make the real problems in urban communities worse. By Jennie Bristow.
Health and safety ‘excuse’ for unpopular decisions
BBC News Online, 24 August 2011
Councils and companies are using health and safety rules as an excuse to make "unpopular decisions" banning low-risk activities, a watchdog says.
Cameron’s cure will make society sicker
spiked, 23 August 2011
The PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority.
Dr Spock’s Baby and Child Care at 65
BBC News Online, 23 August 2011
Sixty-five years since its first publication, Louise Hidalgo asks, what is Dr Spock's contribution to child-rearing today?
The ‘Foundation Years’: For a New Generation of Mini-Camerons?
Huffington Post, 20 July 2011
The Con-Lib Coalition has announced its own version of the toddlers' curriculum - with teeth.
David Willets: feminism has held back working men
Daily Telegraph, 1 April 2011
The rise of equal rights for women has left working-class men struggling to get on in life, according to David Willetts, the Universities Minister.
Women denied epidurals in NHS cutbacks
Sunday Times, 20 February 2011
NHS accused of tricking women out of having pain relief during child birth as maternity struggle with budget cuts and staff shortages.
All consuming baby boomers are the country’s biggest polluters
Sunday Times, 20 February 2011
With more disposable cash to spend on luxury items like plasma TVs and gas-guzzling cars, are 50 to 64-year-olds costing the earth?
Modesty and low ambition keep women out of top jobs
Sunday Times, 20 February 2011
A new study suggests hesitancy and self-doubt, rather than overt male sexism, limits the number of women in senior management roles.
Get involved, you lad dads
Sunday Times, 20 February 2011
Tim Southwell, the former editor of Loaded magazine, is using a well-tried tactic to interest men in school fundraising.
Slacking as Self-Discovery
New Atlantis, 16 February 2011
The Rebranding of Indolence as ‘Emerging Adulthood’. By Rita Koganzon.
David Cameron vows to make Big Society succeed
BBC News Online, 14 February 2011
David Cameron will say it is his "mission in politics" to make the Big Society succeed - amid claims it is being wrecked by spending cuts.
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