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      • New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies
      • Parenting culture and feeding babies: a one-day symposium
        • Parenting culture and feeding babies: programme
        • Parenting culture and feeding babies: key participants
        • Parenting culture and feeding babies: abstracts
      • Parenting Culture and Growing Up – seminar series
      • Pregnancy and the pitfalls of the ‘teachable moment’ 
      • Previous forums
      • Parenting before Children? Parenting culture, pregnancy and the ‘pre-conception period’
      • ‘Women of Reproductive Age’: Governing Potential Pregnancy
      • Policing Pregnancy 2016
        • Programme
        • Speaker biographies
      • Policing Pregnancy: Who should be a mother?
        • Programme
        • Biographies and abstracts
      • Doctors, Conscience and Abortion Law and Practice
        • Programme
      • Feeding children: Critical perspectives
        • Programme
      • Parenting and Personhood
      • Making Parents
      • Poor Parenting?
      • Should we teach parenting?
      • (Un)comfortable bedfellows?
      • Uses and Abuses of Biology
      • Monitoring Parents 2: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture
        • Background to the event
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        • Call for Papers
        • Information for attendees
        • Keynote Abstracts
        • Media Comment
          • Government ‘early intervention’ plans are prejudice about parents masquerading as evidence, says University of Kent sociologist.
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        • Conference Programme 2 of 3
        • Conference Programme 3 of 3
      • Feeding children in the new parenting culture
        • Abstracts and papers
      • Pregnancy and pre-pregnancy
      • ESRC seminars: Changing parenting culture
        • Aims and objectives
        • Background
        • Participants
        • Seminar 1
          • Abstracts and papers
        • Seminar 2
          • Abstracts and papers
        • Seminar 3
          • Abstracts and papers
        • Seminar 4
          • Abstracts and papers
        • Seminar 5
          • Abstracts and papers
      • Founding conference: Monitoring parents
        • Background
  • Research themes
    • Cross-cultural comparison
      • Making Parents
      • Migrant parents
      • Parenting cultures and risk management in plural Norway
        • Conference: Parenting and Personhood: Cross-cultural perspectives on family-life, expertise, and risk management
          • Accommodation
          • Call for papers
          • Keynote abstracts, presentations and audio
          • Participants
          • Programme
        • ParCul kick off programme
      • Parenting, childhood and adult-child relations
      • Childhood, well-being, parenting
      • Parenting in global perspective
    • Family and Kinship
      • Families in a time of Covid
      • Siblings, contact and the law:
    • Pregnancy and abortion
      • After Choice: FASD and the ‘managed woman’ (collaborative project)
      • Drinking during pregnancy (study)
      • The Construction of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in British Newspapers (study)
      • Assessing Child Welfare under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act: the new law (study)
        • Science, Law and Bio-Ethics Events
      • Centre for Reproductive Research
      • Pregnancy and pregnancy planning in the new parenting culture (event)
      • Abortion research by CPCS Associates
        • Abortion doctors, professional identity and the law: background
      • Policing Pregnancy events
    • Early intervention
      • ACEs: ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’
      • Biologising Parenting
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    • Intimacy
    • Generations
      • Generations network
        • Generations network workshop series
        • Selected readings and resources on generations
      • Generations publications
    • Feeding babies and children
      • Child Veganism, and Alternative Milks in Switzerland
      • CPCS Briefings
      • CPCS work on feeding babies
      • Feeding children inside and outside the home: Critical perspectives
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