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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Trans Issues. A film censor to tell parents and children what they should think.
24 Mar, 2021 RT The British Board of Film Classification has stepped into the trans debate by highlighting five films for families to...
Aug 21, 20206 min read
Eight new rules for parenting post lockdown
Published in The Times 21 August 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-parent-after-lockdown-eight-new-rules-m99jl7kpn Family...
Jul 19, 20205 min read
The bonds that hold society together are breaking
Published in the Daily Mail 19 July 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537643/Boundaries-separating-adults-children-men-w...
Jun 21, 20205 min read
Parents, overcome your fears
14 May 2020 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/14/parents-overcome-your-fears/#.Xrz1-KcugFM.twitter Schools can't stay locked down...
Nov 30, 20194 min read
Play ‘self-identity’, make yourself up as you go
Until recently only children were expected to play and pretend they were someone else — a scary lion, Alexander the Great or Superman....
Oct 1, 20196 min read
The gender-neutral attack on motherhood
I was genuinely shocked by the news that Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who retained his female reproductive organs and gave birth...
Sep 12, 20183 min read
The toxic legacy of parent shaming – and the damage it does to children
Intensive parenting has become the latest target of parent shaming. Having been instructed to constantly supervise their children,...
Jun 22, 20186 min read
A war that begins in the nursery
Unlike the 19th century Kulturkampf associated with the name of Bismarck, those of today appear over apparently very small- outwardly...
Apr 2, 20164 min read
Paranoid parenting means university students are treated as kids
In the 21st century answers can range from 18 to 21 through to 26 and all the way up to the early 30s. Sociologists have invented an...
May 26, 20154 min read
Mother loses child because of her beliefs
At first I thought that I had misread the report that a 7-year old boy had been taken away from his mother because a judge ruled that the...
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