parenting culture
That deep maternal urge . . . to kill your child
The Times (London), 23 January 2010
If a coma patient can be denied sustenance, why should the woman who injected her brain-damaged son be criminalised? By Janice Turner.
A decade of parenting has left working mothers feeling guilty and tired
Daily Telegraph, 17 December 2009
Mothers and fathers have never felt more under fire, says Marianne Kavanagh.
Call me a spoilsport but I’m glad my dad wasn’t a lesbian
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
By Jeremy Clarkson.
Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children
Sunday Times, 22 November 2009
It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low intelligence it is even harder. By Minette Marrin.
BBC ban on Enid Blyton
The Times (London), 16 November 2009
The corporation regarded the children's author as a 'second-rater'.
Worship of children has gone too far
The Times (London), 14 November 2009
Since when did raising a child elevate you to a state of grace with big benefits attached? By Janice Turner.
For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking
New York Times, 21 October 2009
Many in today’s pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells. By Hilary Stout.
The weird world of Park Slope parents
spiked, 14 October 2009
Amy Sohn’s Prospect Park West captures perfectly the bourgeois-bohemian residents and overwrought moms of Park Slope in Brooklyn, but in the end its sharp, glinting satire might leave the reader cold. By Nancy McDermott.
The perils of modern parenting - whatever happened to muddling through?
Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2009
There's a multi-million pound industry out there telling us how to be model parents. Since when did bringing up children become so complicated, asks Marianne Kavanagh.
The kids are seething and it’s the fault of our generation
Sunday Times, 27 September 2009
By India Knight.
Why everything you thought you knew about being a good parent is WRONG
Daily Mail, 25 September 2009
Lavish your offspring with praise? Let Dad share the childcare? Teach them not to be bullies? It will all backfire, claims new research...
Online debate: How responsible are we for other people’s children?
The Times Alpha Mummy, 22 September 2009
Alpha Mummy will be hosting an online debate on Wednesday 23 September at 1pm, with with Jennie Bristow, author of Standing Up to Supernanny; Jan Macvarish of the University of Kent; and Jennifer Howze, lead blogger on Alpha Mummy. Join in!
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