Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear. 		 
       
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Frank launched his new book, Invitation to Terror, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October 2007. Watch the session on FORA.tv.
 

parenting

Punishing Parents
spiked, 7 July 2004
The campaign against smacking is based on the poisonous notion that children need to be saved from their parents.

The children who won’t grow up
spiked, 29 July 2003
Peter Pan-demonium, kidults, boomerang kids.... A sociologist examines the phenomenon of lost boys and girls hanging out on the edge of adulthood.

Culture wars hit the nursery
New Statesman, 28 May 2001

Making sense of parental paranoia
published in The Guardian, 25 April 2001
An extract from Paranoid Parenting

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