Jan Macvarish
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View article: Parenting Culture Studies
Parenting Culture Studies Open
Includes case studies on attachment and helicopter parenting to assess the socio-cultural roots of parenting debates. Reviews the literature around intensive parenting, parenting experts and the politics of parenting. Discusses intensive p…
View article: Siblings, contact and the law: an overlooked relationship?
Siblings, contact and the law: an overlooked relationship? Open
Over the last twenty years research about siblings has emerged across a number of disciplines. The starting point for much of this work has been the identification of a paradox: that sibling relationships both have a significant impact on …
View article: The peculiar joylessness of neuroparenting
The peculiar joylessness of neuroparenting Open
Jan Macvarish interrogates the ‘new’ science of neuroparenting, and the idea that parents are the ‘architects’ of their babies’ brains and therefore of their future happiness and life chances. She argues that this assumption has a persiste…
View article: Neuroparenting
Neuroparenting Open
This book traces the growing influence of 'neuroparenting' in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby's brain develo