Issue No.
18
November 2008
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Paranoid parenting
Why officialdom’s suspicion of adults is bad for children.
by Frank Furedi
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 Tim Black
Over the past seven days, the spectre of childhood obesity has made a comeback, the UK government has launched a campaign to tell dads to get more involved in child-rearing, and the tragic case of Baby P has been cited as evidence that step-parents / single parents / young parents are harming kids and offending against common morality. It seems every problem faced by society can be blamed on bad, badly informed or slack parents. It is timely, then, that a second edition of Frank Furedi’s 2001 book Paranoid Parenting is being published. In this month’s spiked review of books, Furedi says the problems of mistrust of adults and expert intervention into family life that he described in 2001 have worsened, and says it is time we all challenged the parent-bashers. We also have Kenan Malik on the Rushdie Affair; Mícheál Mac Giolla Phádraig on the IRA; Rob Lyons on the super-rich capitalists stoking climate alarmism; and much, much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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