Media enquiries CPCS associates regularly provide media comment, if you are from a media organisation and want to speak to someone from CPCS please email Dr Ellie Lee in the first instance or the University of Kent press office
Read specific coverage of our events (also included below)
Press releases about CPCS events
CPCS in the news: Latest
Books
Tracey Jensen, Parenting the crisis.
Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century, Janet Golden
Latest by Frank Furedi, How Fear Works
Book reviews
Ellie Lee reviews Blinded by Science: The Social Implications of Epigenetics and Neuroscience by Dave Wastell and Sue White
Journal articles
Ellie Lee, Sally Sheldon and Jan Macvarish, ‘The Abortion Act Fifty Years On’, in Social Science and Medicine. See here for more about this research.
Max Antony-Newman, ‘Parental involvement of immigrant parents: a meta-synthesis’
Glenda Wall, in Sociology of Health and Illness, ‘ ‘Love builds brains’: Representations of attachment and children’s brain development in parenting education material’.
Sunna Símonardóttir and Ingólfur V. Gíslason in The Sociological Review, ‘When breast is not best: Opposing dominant discourses on breastfeeding’.
Authored comments
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Jan Macvarish, ‘Stop Putting Pressure on New Mums’ Frank Furedi, ‘A War that Begins in the Nursery’ Ashley Frawley, ‘The Dystopia of The Child Protection Industry’ Martin Robb, ‘Fatherhood, families and intensive parenting: reflections on two recent conferences’ |
‘‘Killer kids’: why do children make the most magnetic villains?’, with comment by Ellie Lee
Frank Furedi, ‘Stop this moral crusade against circumcision’
‘Adolescence now lasts from 10 to 24’, with comment by Jan Macvarish
Jennie Bristow, ‘Time for a truce in the generation wars‘
Jan Macvarish, ‘Why Mothers Shouldn’t be Bribed to Breastfeed’
Frank Furedi, ‘Turning Childhood into a Mental Illness’
Media mentions
Jan Macvarish, featured on the Let Grow Blog, ‘Dear Experts: Quit Telling us how to ‘Correctly’ Bond with our Kids’
Ellie Lee, in article in the ESRC’s Society Now and The Guardian, on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act.
Comments from CPCS associates in this article on the Zetland website, ‘Imagine if you do not really decide your child’s future’ (in Danish).
Jennie Bristow, ‘The manipulative flattery of the youth vote is demeaning to young people and bad for politics‘
Ellie Lee, The Sun, on drinking and pregnancy.
Angry and Overwhelmed, the men who experience postnatal depression’, with comment from Ellie Lees
‘MPs to discuss reform of UK’s Victorian Era Abortion Law’, with comment from Ellie Lee.
‘The Therapeutic University’, by Frank Furedi.
‘Tamara Ecclestone breastfeeding pictures: Why were they controversial?’ with comment by Ellie Lee
‘From Brexit to the pensions crisis, how did the Baby Boomers get the blame for everything?’, by Jennie Bristow
Newspaper interviews with Jan Macvarish about neuroparenting, in the Netherlands and Belgium:
https://beta.trouw.nl/samenleving/breinexperts-vergallen-het-ouderschap~a6aabd95/
http://www.demorgen.be/plus/-een-kind-heeft-ouders-nodig-b-1485996003899/