Parenting

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...