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Gabrielle Shiner
Circumnavigating the authorities
Why were the parents of the Dutch teen who sailed the world deemed incapable of deciding what's best for their child?
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Sally Millard
How about butting out of family life?
With its latest guilt-tripping wheeze, the anti-smoking lobby seems intent on turning our children against us.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Helene Guldberg
Ignore these pedlars of panic – the kids are all right
Report after report tells us that children are sad, lost and in need of expert intervention. Real-world evidence suggests otherwise.
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| Monday 21 November 2011 |
Ken McLaughlin
The use and abuse of vulnerable babies
In these austere times, the race for funds leads groups like the NSPCC to issue shocking stats that don't add up.
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| Wednesday 26 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The horrors of Halloween advice
Why is the US health-and-safety brigade scaring kids about everything from inflammable costumes to poisonous treats?
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| Thursday 22 September 2011 |
Nancy McDermott
Leave SpongeBob SquarePants alone!
Now we’re warned that the popular cartoon turns kids into dimwits. Yet another pointless guilt-trip for parents.
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| Monday 19 September 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
Parents should rise up against this neurotrash
ESSAY: Dodgy neuroscience is being used to justify unprecedented levels of state intrusion into family life.
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| Monday 12 September 2011 |
Frank Furedi
It’s time to expel the ‘experts’ from family life
In repackaging parenting as a superbly complex, almost scientific task, a gaggle of experts hopes to colonise our personal lives.
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| Monday 5 September 2011 |
Tim Black
The NSPCC doesn’t help kids - it harms them
With its ceaseless promotion of fear and suspicion of adults, the NSPCC undermines organic bonds between generations.
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Ellie Lee
The tyranny of parental determinism
The Lib-Con government is using junk neuroscience to claim that bad parenting causes all of society’s ills.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Heather Piper
Daring to criticise child protection policies
As a researcher into ‘no touch’ policies discovered, you criticise child-protection quangos at your peril.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Jane Sandeman
They f*** you up, your Parenting Classes
Despite the views of the UK government, parents don’t need experts to teach them to care for their own children.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Frank Furedi
It’s health-and-safety gone mainstream!
British officials love to laugh at mad bans on conkers and snowfights, yet they continue to institutionalise a cult of caution.
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| Thursday 9 June 2011 |
Frank Furedi
‘Western parents need to chill out about their kids’
The author of Paranoid Parenting says that far from needing a stricter ‘Asian’ approach, Western parenting is already way too intensive.
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| Wednesday 8 June 2011 |
Neil Davenport
I’ve had enough of Katy Perry’s cleavage
David Cameron is right that our society is saturated with sexual imagery – but his proposals won’t solve the problem.
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| Thursday 26 May 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Tuesday 22 March 2011 |
Adrian Hart
It’s mostly anti-racists keeping racism alive
While race-relations experts fret about managing people, young people are embracing ‘superdiversity’.
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| Thursday 17 March 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Are Swedish six-year-olds learning pole dancing?
A Stockholm gym owner said to be offering kids ‘strip aerobics’ classes tells spiked that it’s her accusers who have dodgy ideas.
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| Thursday 10 February 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Monday 7 February 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Our ‘darling children’ are the new Suffragettes!
Students, could there be anything more embarrassing than the militant mummies cheering your protests on?
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