parenting culture
The baby blues that won’t go away
The Times (London), 10 July 2010
Americans are calling it ‘parental dissatisfaction’. But mums and dads are being told to stop their whinging and be thankful. By Viv Groskop.
Stay-at-home mothers: ‘We don’t care about having it all’
The Times (London), 10 July 2010
They’re young, smart, educated – and all they want is to stay at home and have babies. Meet the women for whom caring matters more than a career. By Sarah Harris.
All Joy and No Fun
New York Magazine, 4 July 2010
Why parents hate parenting. By Jennifer Senior.
‘More and more rules’ on pregnancy
BBC News, 16 June 2010
Pregnancy has become ever more 'policed', with a litany of rules for parents-to-be on how to behave, a parenting conference is due to hear.
School gate battle of the competitive mums as two thirds admit to trying to out do each other
Daily Mail, 15 June 2010
For many mothers, getting the children to the school gates on time every morning can feel like a battle in itself. But research suggests this is just the warm-up to the real competition - against each other.
Confused, guilty? You must be a young mother
The Times, 10 June 2010
Believe the findings that suit you and disregard those that don’t. That’s my advice – which you are free to ignore. By Antonia Senior.
‘For trusting my daughter, I was treated as a criminal’
spiked, 13 May 2010
What’s the punishment for leaving your kids in a shopping mall for one hour? For one mum, it was probation, parenting classes, and shame. By Nancy McDermott.
Six months old and he can tell good from evil
The Sunday Times , 9 May 2010
Scientists have discovered that babies can start to make moral judgments by the age of six months and may be born with the ability to tell good from bad hard-wired into their brains.
Faminist Theory
The New York Observer, 4 May 2010
The feminist battleground, with its slogans, marches, and campaigns for reproductive rights, has given way to the playground and the fight for lactation rights, stroller rights, school-system rights, unpasteurized milk rights, charter schools, birthing techniques, nutritional value of bagged lunches and water quality. It is not so much about the Fem as it is about the Fam. By Irina Aleksander.
Parents taken to task for ‘buying off’ children
The Times, 23 March 2010
Mary Bousted, the teachers' leader, says well-off parents guilty of neglecting children by leaving them to entertain themselves.
Is motherhood a form of oppression?
The Times, 22 March 2010
Thanks to breastfeeding, organic purees and eco nappies, the baby has become a tyrant, says a bestselling book in France by the French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter.
Rescuing adult authority in the twenty-first century
spiked, 15 February 2010
Parental determinism – the idea that parenting skills shape the future – makes Stalin’s economic determinism seem almost subtle by comparison. By Frank Furedi.
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