Parenting studies
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The Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) is based the the University of Kent
SSPSSR, University of Kent
Joined May 2010
And there it is! The new Parenting Culture Studies out in softcover. All revised, and new section on Parenting and the Pandemic Thanks to @PalgraveSoc
@SSPSSR ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/M0l2oFZ5uh
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Delighted to receive this in the post this morning. Honoured to be able to carry on contributing to the work of the Parenting Culture Studies OGs Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow and Charlie Faircloth, despite my own career shift! @CPCS_UniKent
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Coming up next term 28th January Intensive Mothering and the School Day in Spain: A Class Affair 18 March Navigating motherhood online: understanding the role of momfluencers in the infant feeding journey of first-time mothers Details here: https://t.co/8ihWCCp8og
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Pathologizing a Generation: The Mental Health Boom That’s Making Our Young Sicker:
amac.us
Mental health labeling in children may be harming resilience—turning normal emotions into disorders and fueling a profit-driven system.
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I don't think I've ever read anything that's made me angrier. Greenlandic families having babies taken away at birth after "parenting tests." Why was she being tested? "To see if you are civilised enough, if you can act like a human being." https://t.co/jakPlKIivp
bbc.com
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
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About a quarter of “healthy” young adults think they have ADHD (28%), according to new research. But that number jumped to more than half (58%) after they received an ADHD awareness campaign based on popular ADHD advocacy groups’ material. worrying?
cambridge.org
Inform and do no harm: Nocebo education reduces false self-diagnosis caused by mental health awareness - Volume 55
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“I will be struck down by the God of Midwifery for this, but I don’t think the ideology in the model is fit for purpose in the 21st century. It’s become like a religion.” A huge thanks this midwife & others - who have been brave enough to talk to the Sunday Times 🙏
“All birth environments will share a philosophy of promoting ‘normal birth’…” - Maternity Strategy For Leeds - June 2015 Published 3 months after the Morecambe Bay Investigation exposed the deadly consequences of the same approach.
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Let’s be clear, the way that we were treated was not as a result of staffing numbers or funding. The labour ward was neither understaffed nor over stretched, according to the Coroner’s examination of both of these areas. 1/ https://t.co/nr9wBDseb5
thetimes.com
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
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Wakefield is a fraud whose work has resulted in immense harm to children and public health. Interestingly, before he broached the idea in his most famous fraudulent article, no one thought to claim that their kid was turned autistic by vaccines. That was all post-Wakefield!
Time to conduct science with integrity. Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions.
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The central moral question is 'who decides'. The report (unlike this article) has a clear answer through decades of thinking, writing, and running abortion services, by the authors combined. Nothing trivial about it. By way of background: https://t.co/y1ncihIogE
@AnnFuredi
If abortion is a trivial healthcare decision, why should there be outrage over sex selection? We’re purposefully ignoring hard moral questions, writes @Docstockk 👇 https://t.co/xmmqV4a7OW
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Interesting commentary
Many people fear parenthood at least in part because standards for parenting are so high. People who want kids delay (“I need to get rich first”), and couples who do have children often stop at one or two because high-intensity parenting is exhausting. The good news is that you
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How do we relate to strangers in an age where nothing is private? How does it redefine what it means to be an intimate? Join @tiffanyjenkins (author, Strangers and Intimates), @stephengadubato & @TheAnnaGat for an engaging salon on this modern dilemma. https://t.co/5mG8isTAZZ
interintellect.com
In an age dominated by public spectacles, and where even things as mundane as eating lunch can be projected out into the ether via Instagram stories, respect for privacy seems to be fading away. The...
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This is the report about the abortion law in Scotland that isn't, in fact, about anything the Telegraph says it is. It is a shame so many who say they are for the rights of women clearly haven't bothered to read it before creating a storm of hostility https://t.co/QBAnGuB2m3
gov.scot
A report prepared by an Expert Group commissioned by the Scottish Government to review the law on abortion in Scotland.
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"Normal birth advocates have gone to ground publicly but they are continuing to teach students." https://t.co/SBG1t8rrYt
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@JournalistJill The only way to ban abortion for certain reasons is to interrogate every woman on why she wants to end a pregnancy, and allow the State to force her to give birth if her reasons aren't good enough. This proposal makes sure that the only person who controls a woman's body is her.
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As a group of over 700 harmed families in #Oxfordshire failed by OUH maternity services, we’ve contacted @LaylaMoran many times & had no response. We had to organise our own meetings with @ValerieAmos. Why have you not supported us? https://t.co/3yqsIiISl0
@EdwardJDavey
bbc.co.uk
The Health and Social Care Committee says delays in the process risk "undermining public confidence".
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The EU is trying to make it easier for activists across Europe to weaponise the police against speech they don't like. Watch my speech in European Parliament on trans activism and the hidden spread of gender identity ideology across the EU. 👇
Brussels is funding NGOs to push gender ideology into Europe’s classrooms. @AshleyAFrawley exposes how dissenting women are silenced and “anti-discrimination” becomes indoctrination. Watch her European Parliament speech.
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No surprise that an acupuncturist, homeopaths, chiropractors & hypnobirthing practitioners have signed. The former CEO of NCT, who was in post during the build up & implementation of normal birth policies, has also signed.
So many UHSussex midwife signatures on this petition in response to @ShaunLintern's normal birth investigation 😫
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What action will @nmcnews and @MidwivesRCM be taking about this? Do midwives and nurses who signed the letter need to attend a compulsory course (like drink drivers) to teach them that babies brain injured preventably at birth is not media sensationalism? I am speechless.
So many UHSussex midwife signatures on this petition in response to @ShaunLintern's normal birth investigation 😫
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So, in response to @ShaunLintern’s Sunday Times exposé at the weekend, more than 1,000 midwives, doulas, hypnotherapists, acupuncturists, and others have signed this open letter - which claims that "normal birth at any cost” - a key finding of the Morecambe Bay Investigation
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A generation ago, adults tended to rely on plain descriptors. A kid was shy. A kid was disruptive. Now we reach more quickly for clinical language. The shy child becomes a case of anxiety. The disruptive child becomes someone with ODD. The behavior hasn’t necessarily changed, but
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We don’t think parents send their children to school for ‘brain reprogramming’ or to become‘inequality disrupters’. Nor is that what tax payers expect. These third party organisations should not be in schools. It’s more than a one -off. Why nothing in the curriculum review?
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