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| Tuesday 13 October 2009 |
Circumcision: cut the crap
‘Intactivists’ who claim that being circumcised abused their human rights, and ruined their sex lives, should get a grip.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
The weird world of Park Slope parents
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.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
Join the movement for ‘Free Range Kids’
Lenore Skenazy, branded ‘America’s Worst Mom’ after she let her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway alone, has now written a manifesto for less panicked parenting and more childhood freedom.
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| Monday 20 April 2009 |
‘Militant lactivism’: question it at your peril
A US journalist caused a storm when she dared to challenge some of the scientific claims of the breast-is-best lobby. She talks to spiked.
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| Friday 27 March 2009 |
‘There is no “right way”
to rear a child’
On the tenth anniversary of the publication of her provocative book The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris talks to the spiked review of books about prescriptive parenting, playground bullies and grandmotherly advice.
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| Monday 26 January 2009 |
I breastfeed, therefore I am a good mother
Yes, it’s wrong for Facebook to censor breastfeeding photos – but why do some moms make such a public display of nursing?
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| Monday 22 December 2008 |
Christmas culture wars
Concern that Christmas is anything from too religious to too commercial exposes America’s troubled soul.
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| Thursday 18 December 2008 |
Parenting: it’s not rocket science
Mums and dads should trust their own judgments more, and resist the tyranny of the new ‘science of parenting’.
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| Monday 24 November 2008 |
Babywearers of the world, unite!
Why did moms who carry their babies in slings or wraps react so badly to a less-than-reverential ad?
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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
The high cost of invasive parenting advice
A striking new book argues that ‘invasive parenting’, ‘hyper parenting’ and even ‘death-grip parenting’ are turning out a nation of wimps: young adults who can’t cope without having mommy on call. Is it true – and how did it happen?
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| Tuesday 27 May 2008 |
The Great American Baby Bottle Scare
Cynical official scaremongering about a harmless plastic in baby bottles has panicked moms and dads throughout America and Canada.
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| Wednesday 30 April 2008 |
‘I’ve been labelled the world’s worst mom’
New York Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy tells spiked about the barrage of abuse she got for letting her nine-year-old ride the subway alone.
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| Monday 28 April 2008 |
Can we hector parents? Yes we can!
By making parental attitudes central to his vision for education, Barack Obama is blaming moms and dads for the US State’s school failures.
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| Monday 3 March 2008 |
Move over Soccer Mom — meet Ecomom
‘Eco-motherhood’, which encourages a morbid preoccupation with waste and guilt about having kids, won’t save the planet – but it might just drive you crazy.
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| Thursday 10 January 2008 |
A striking lack of ideas on US TV
With the schedules packed full of Pop Idol clones, ripped-off Brit-coms and half-scripted reality TV shows, it's little wonder the US public finds the screenwriters' strike a turn-off.
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| Friday 30 November 2007 |
Is stay-at-home motherhood only ‘half a life’?
Two new books implore women to ‘get to work!’ instead of staying home as dish-cleaning, hands-on mums. But it will take more than slating women’s personal choices to change women’s social roles.
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| Monday 24 September 2007 |
Kid Nation: it's not exactly William Golding
Many feared that CBS’s reality TV show would create a ‘Lord of the Flies’ situation. In fact it has an army of mollycoddling adults off camera.
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| Friday 3 August 2007 |
‘Parents take parenting far too seriously’
The widow of Dr Spock – author of the Bible of parenting guides – says he'd be horrified by today's avalanche of advice for mums and dads.
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| Friday 20 July 2007 |
‘Parents take parenting far too seriously’
The widow of Dr Benjamin Spock – author of the Bible of parenting guides: Baby and Child Care – says he would be horrified by today’s avalanche of advice for mums and dads.
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| Monday 25 June 2007 |
Bugged by the Bugaboo parents
Why are so many commentators throwing their toys out of their prams over the right-on mums and dads who live in Park Slope, Brooklyn?
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