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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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| Thursday 20 January 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
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’?
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| Monday 4 October 2010 |
Ellie Lee
The myth of male postnatal depression
Dr Ellie Lee picks apart the social and media construction of a biological impossibility.
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| Thursday 19 August 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Nick Clegg takes ‘parental determinism’ to a new low
It is mad to claim, as the deputy PM does, that poor parenting is more important than poverty in screwing up children’s life chances.
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| Tuesday 10 August 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Parenting isn’t a bunch of skills that can be taught
Frank Field’s proposal to have a GCSE in parenting would denigrate both what it means to be a parent and the purpose of education.
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| Tuesday 10 August 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The milk of human kindness? Hardly
The defence of free school milk springs from a view that only the state, not parents, can be trusted to feed kids properly.
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| Tuesday 10 August 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Stop smoking or your children will die
The redefinition of smoking in cars as ‘child abuse’ is about guilt-tripping parents into changing their behaviour.
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| Tuesday 10 August 2010 |
Luke Gittos
Barnardo’s, butt out of the law
The children’s charity wants to ‘fast track’ court cases that could result in the removal of a child from its family. No way.
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| Thursday 8 July 2010 |
Helene Guldberg
Set children free — by trusting adults
We can only give kids the independence they need if we have faith in other people to look out for them.
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| Monday 5 July 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Officialdom’s bullying of so-called fat kids
The branding of a perfectly normal 11-year-old boy as ‘overweight’ shows how mad the obesity panic has become.
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| Tuesday 22 June 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Tuesday 25 May 2010 |
Frank Furedi
A showtrial of children for being naughty
The conviction of two boys for attempted rape is not only a travesty of justice – it also exposes society’s screwed-up attitude towards childhood.
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| Friday 21 May 2010 |
Lenore Skenazy
Take your kids to the park, and leave them there
A New York writer has caused a storm by encouraging parents to leave their kids in parks tomorrow. She tells spiked why she’s doing it.
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| Thursday 13 May 2010 |
Nancy McDermott
‘For trusting my daughter, I was treated as a criminal’
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.
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| Wednesday 28 April 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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