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| Tuesday 14 May 2013 |
Cleveland kidnappings: putting the poor on trial
Some observers are verging on blaming a whole rundown neighbourhood for Ariel Castro’s horrific crimes.
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| Friday 26 April 2013 |
‘Breast is Best’: the worst kind of hectoring
Two new books explode the pseudoscientific idea that bottle-feeding is evil, and reveal what a poisonous impact the pro-breast lobby has had.
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| Friday 5 April 2013 |
‘Breast is Best’: the worst kind of hectoring
Two new books explode the pseudoscientific idea that bottle-feeding is evil, and reveal what a poisonous impact the pro-breast lobby has had.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2013 |
The decline of the family’s mystique
Fifty years on from Betty Friedan’s seminal The Feminine Mystique, family life could do with more supporters.
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| Thursday 27 December 2012 |
Are we witnessing the decline and fall of men?
Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men shouldn’t be read as a cast-iron prediction of a newly gendered future, but rather as the raiser of important questions about the crisis of masculinity.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Sandy was a bitch, not the apocalypse
This storm reminded us that nature can be tough but that the people of New York are even tougher.
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| Friday 28 September 2012 |
Using science to freak out parents
A new book on ‘attachment parenting’ peddles the myth that there’s a right way to raise kids. PLUS: Why parental determinism is little more than neurobollocks.
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| Friday 27 July 2012 |
Park Slope parents
behaving badly
Amy Sohn’s sequel to Prospect Park West turns an excited but acute eye on parents who, racked with midlife crises, seem intent on acting like children.
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| Friday 29 June 2012 |
Farewell, Nora Ephron
The journalist, screenwriter and director, who died this week aged 71, should be remembered as much for her fine, conversational essays as for When Harry Met Sally.
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| Wednesday 27 June 2012 |
An invitation for kids to be cruel
The humiliation of New York bus monitor Karen Klein reveals a great deal about the erosion of adult authority.
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| Wednesday 30 May 2012 |
Etan Patz: the case that changed America
Thirty-three years on, a man has been arrested for the murder of six-year-old Etan. But America is still reeling from that abduction.
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| Friday 25 May 2012 |
Thank you, Maurice Sendak
In picture and word, Where the Wild Things Are remains a sublime testament to the untamed emotions of childhood.
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| Monday 21 May 2012 |
Time magazine did not invent the mommy wars
A cover image of a mother breastfeeding her four-year-old has aroused ire, but debates about parenting aren’t new.
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| Friday 11 May 2012 |
Thank you, Maurice Sendak
In picture and word, Where the Wild Things Are remains a sublime testament to the untamed emotions of childhood.
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| Friday 30 March 2012 |
No bowing down before Bébé
American journalist Pamela Druckerman’s fascinating look at how the French bring up their children shows that putting adults first is better for everyone – the kids included.
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| Tuesday 6 March 2012 |
Why I don’t ‘Like’ this nipple campaign
Facebook’s ban on photos of women’s exposed breasts is silly, but lactivists’ campaign against it is even sillier.
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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
Joan Didion’s blue nights of the soul
A heart-wrenching memoir about the loss of a daughter cuts through the contemporary clichés about ‘bonding’ and ‘attachment’ to get at the raw stuff of parenthood.
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| Tuesday 20 December 2011 |
Merry Christmas! Well, sort of.
America’s un-Christmassy cards show a national inability to share each other's rituals and beliefs with confidence.
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| Thursday 22 September 2011 |
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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| Friday 24 June 2011 |
Why parents can’t cut the apron strings
There’s a reason parents now get intensively involved in their kids’ lives: it’s because society is incapable of socialising young people, heaping more and more responsibility on to families.
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