Parenting news: archive
Curbs on ‘sexy’ pre-teen clothing
Sunday Times, 5 December 2010
Pole-dancing kits and ‘Porn star’ T-shirts for young girls are on the hitlist as shops face tough new government rules.
Parenting not income key to tackling inequality - Field
BBC News Online, 3 December 2010
Instead of increasing benefits for children, ministers should put the money into improving parenting skills, the government's poverty czar has said.
A very middle class revolt!
Daily Mail, 26 November 2010
The flower arrangers and bell ringers fighting crazy criminal vetting of anyone who works near children. By Josie Appleton.
Lord Vinson on CRB checks
Hansard, 25 November 2010
Text of House of Lords debate.
Teachers and parents: enemies or allies?
Independent , 31 October 2010
I am hoping that one result of cuts in government expenditure will be a reduction in the amount of information and guidance that parents receive from schools about how to educate and bring up our children. By Sally Millard.
Vetting snags child shoplifters
Sunday Times, 31 October 2010
Students at sixth-form colleges and universities are being targeted after being subjected to random criminal record checks.
France: a ‘revolution’ to preserve the status quo
spiked, 27 October 2010
In the past, youthful rebels were heroically indifferent to their long-term security. The French protesters are obsessed with theirs. By Frank Furedi.
Anti-paedophile vetting scheme to be ripped up
Daily Telegraph, 22 October 2010
An anti-paedophile vetting scheme that would have forced nine million people to undergo checks is to be ripped up under a review to be announced today, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Commission calls for ‘family revolution’
Children & Young People Now, 12 October 2010
The government should establish a "family test" and create children and family centres if it wants to achieve the best for British families, the Family Commission has said in its final report
School dinner lady warned offering a child a biscuit could be seen as ‘grooming’
Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2010
A school dinner lady was told giving a child a biscuit could be considered grooming, her husband has claimed.
State ‘should not finance’ big families on benefits
BBC News Online, 7 October 2010
The new cap on family benefits will encourage "responsibility" about the number of children people have, a cabinet minister has said.
Take away our baby money at your peril
Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2010
George Osborne's economic case for destroying the totemic idea of universal child benefit will not do. By Allison Pearson.
Pregnant women told glass of wine a week won’t harm baby: research
Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2010
A mother drinking a small glass of wine a week during pregnancy will not harm her child's behaviour or development, research has found.
Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right?
Guardian, 5 October 2010
Agony aunt Virginia Ironside's views on euthanasia and abortion shocked many viewers of the BBC's Sunday Morning Live. But, argues Zoe Williams, she has a valid point and was brave to make it.
The myth of male postnatal depression
spiked, 4 October 2010
Dr Ellie Lee picks apart the social and media construction of a biological impossibility.
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