Press Coverage

This is where you will find press releases about the Seminar Series.

Press Releases

• Breaking Britain? The effects of politics on education and child-rearing http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/28janleefuredicpc4/2010

• Seminar launch for 'Supernanny'
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/supernanny/2009

• Child-rearing in a risk society
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/child-rearinginarisksociety/2009

• Rights and 'wrongs' of contemporary fatherhood become the focus of parenting culture seminar
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/3aprilchangingparentingculture/2009

• Frank Furedi to open discussion series on the dilemmas of 21st-century Parenting http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/frankopensseries/2008

• 'Changing Parenting Culture' to launch on 8-9 January
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/cpcseries/2008

• Contemporary parenting more paranoid than ever
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/paranoidparenting/2008

Media Coverage

• The Waning Authority of Today's Parents http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2010/02/the-waning-authority-of-todays-parents.html

• The Great Myth of me-Time http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7028048.ece

• Rescuing adult authority in the twenty-first century http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8182/

• Poor parenting 'blamed for all' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8517905.stm Teenage pregnancy more opportunity than catastrophe, says study http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/12/teenage-pregnancy-study

• It's time to lay off teenage mums http://www.kentnews.co.uk/blog.aspx?bid=434

• The middle classes can learn alot from teenage parents http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/14/olivia-fane-teenage-mothers

• Never Mind the Data. Teen parents just must be bad http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/17/teenage-pregnancies-conservatives-numbers-mistake

• The Tories Sexed-Up dossier misses the point http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/carol_midgley/article7030801.ece

• A decade of parenting has left working mothers feeling guilty and tired http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/6827608/A-decade-of-parenting-has-left-working-mothers-feeling-guilty-and-tired.html

• Giving new life to the role of the father
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8468729.stm

• Bottle-fed babies being put 'at risk' due to lack of information for mothers
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6033595/Bottle-fed-babies-being-put-at-risk-due-to-lack-of-information-for-mothers.html

• Bottle-feeding support 'lacking'
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8166735.stm

• Let the breastfeeding rebellion begin
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/18/breastfeeding-mothers

• MTV, on 'Paranoid parenting'
  http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=32677

• The perils of modern parenting: whatever happened to muddling through?
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/6254187/The-perils-of-modern-parenting---whatever-happened-to-muddling-through.html

• Intensive Parenting (Society Today feature)
  http://www.society-today.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=372:intensive-parenting&catid=97:interaction&Itemid=437

• Other people’s children: should we get involved? Discussion on Times Online’s AlphaMummy Blog, posted September 22
  http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/

• There’s more to parenting than egg production
  http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7420/

• Let’s Stand Up to Supernanny (book review)
  http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7479/

• ‘It’s time to take risks with our children’
  Alphamummy, The Times, December 2
  http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2009/12/its-time-to-take-risks-with-our-children.html#more

• 'The drift towards professional parenting must be resisted'.
  Community Care, 25 November
  http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/11/25/113252/de-professionalise-parenting-michael-fitzpatrick-gp.htm

• Review: Standing up to Supernanny.
  Children & Young People Now, 26 November
  http://www.cypnow.co.uk/resources/Reviews/969220/Standing-Supernanny/