Parenting news: archive

If the guy who invented DNA fingerprinting is worried, we should all be
Daily Mail, 11 May 2009
By Suzanne Moore. How much information does the State need to have about me that I have not freely volunteered? I’d say it already knows a lot more than it needs to. But then so does Tesco.

Foster carers are getting older
Independent, 11 May 2009

The worst parents in the world
Salon, 6 May 2009
Screw Gymboree and breast-feeding! New confessional memoirs by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Lewis join an ever-growing genre lashing out at our expectations for today's mommies and daddies. By Rebecca Traister.

The virtual street where children can learn about real dangers
London Evening Standard, 5 May 2009
A virtual street featuring computer-generated gangs, drug-dealers and paedophiles is to be built in south London to teach children how to cope with the dangers of real life.

Stop worrying about your children!
Salon, 4 May 2009
Kids today are just as safe as they were in the '70s, says Free-Range Kids author Lenore Skenazy, and what's really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up.

We are all suspects in the new inquisition’s eyes
The Times, 1 May 2009
A safety quango will vet one in four adults in the name of child protection. It won't stop predators, but it will corrode trust. By Camilla Cavendish.

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