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Tuesday 10 January 2012
Divorcing marriage from morality By promoting it as a least worst lifestyle option, modern defenders of marriage are undermining its best aspects.

Friday 23 December 2011
A fresh-faced look at growing old In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby elbows aside old prejudices about ageing and the ‘illderly’ and asks instead how society can sensibly cope with having lots of older people.

Friday 28 October 2011
We don’t need to talk about hating kids Lionel Shriver’s Orange Prize-winning novel turned award-winning film about a woman who can’t love her son has been hailed for revealing a hidden truth about motherhood. This mum isn’t empathising.

Monday 19 September 2011
Parents should rise up against this neurotrash ESSAY: Dodgy neuroscience is being used to justify unprecedented levels of state intrusion into family life.

Tuesday 30 August 2011
These riots were not a product of permissiveness 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.

Monday 18 July 2011
Lib-Con family policy: Maggie meets Mary Poppins The coalition’s family policy is an unholy marriage of Thatcher-style traditional moralism and New Labour-style therapeutic interventionism.

Thursday 26 May 2011
The new parenting catfight: Tiger Moms vs Fun Slobs The nature/nurture debate is as unhelpful as ever in solving the problem of raising children.

Thursday 5 May 2011
It is right that society offers ‘Ground E’ abortions The anti-choice lobby’s obsession with abortions for fetal abnormality reveals its vindictive use and abuse of statistics.

Friday 1 April 2011
Women: equal at work, still unequal at home? Christina Hopkinson’s sparkly new novel has been read as a privileged mum’s moan about cleaning. In fact it raises more than a few awkward questions about domestic drudgery.

Monday 14 February 2011
How Britain’s abortion law punishes women The UK High Court will rule today on whether women should be free to carry out ‘early medical abortion’ at home. Jennie Bristow reports.

Thursday 10 February 2011
How the vetting frenzy alienates adults from kids ESSAY: The state’s vetting of adults working with children suggests it no longer trusts us to use our judgement to socialise the next generation.

Thursday 20 January 2011
An open letter to Nick Clegg You say you want to move away from New Labour’s hectoring of parents. So why all the child-targeted ‘early interventionism’?

Monday 22 November 2010
Page Three Girls and porn-again feminists It really is sad that so many feminists get their knickers in a twist about the Sun’s topless beauties.

Friday 15 October 2010
A slap in the face to the bourgeoisie Why Christos Tsiolkas’s romp-of-a-novel about a suburban Australian hitting someone else’s child has got the literary classes in a flap.

Tuesday 28 September 2010
Bringing up baby is not an exact science Okay, I’m not a neuroscientist or a psychologist, but I’m going to trust my gut feeling that most ‘parenting science’ is utter rubbish.

Friday 24 September 2010
A slap in the face to modern niceties Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap has scandalised the middle classes with its critical examination of everything from intergenerational breakdown to the pieties of multiculturalism.

Wednesday 21 July 2010
Big Society: there’s more to politics than the PTA There are some good instincts behind the Lib-Cons' BS agenda. But it risks reducing politics to the level of community cakebaking.

Tuesday 22 June 2010
Sure Start: a fancy new way to police the family Sure Start’s main achievement has been to transform the social problem of child poverty into an individual problem of poor parenting.

Wednesday 28 April 2010
Turning parents into ‘partners of the state’ ELECTION ESSAY: Thanks to New Labour, the family is no longer seen as a haven in a heartless world, but as a site of all sorts of abuse.

Thursday 8 April 2010
The ‘Mumsnet election’ doesn’t get my vote Britain’s political leaders are fawning over professional, campaigning mums, but they still look down their noses at ordinary parents.
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