Parenting Culture Studies

Ellie Lee is Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies and Professor of Family and Parenting Research at University of Kent, UK. Jennie Bristow is a Reader in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.Charlotte Faircloth is Associate Professor of Social Science in the UCL Social Research Institute at University College London, UK.Jan Macvarish is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting. - Chapter 3: Experts and Parenting Culture.- Chapter 4: The Politics of Parenting.- Chapter 5: Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational Contact.- Chapter 6: Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks.- Chapter 7: The Problem of Attachment: The Detached Parent.- Chapter 8: Babies Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother.- Chapter 9: Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad.- Chapter 10: The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids.- Chapter 11: Parenting’ after Covid-19: When the Quantity of ‘Quality time’ Becomes Untenable.- Chapter 12: From Safeguarding to Childism? Covid-19 and the School Closures Debate.- Chapter 13: Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times.- Chapter 14: Conclusion.