{"id":1101,"date":"2011-07-04T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=1101"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:59:02","slug":"media-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/previous-events\/parenting-science\/media-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conference has generated much media discussion over the past weeks. Read on below for coverage in British newspapers, Blogs\u00a0and on BBC radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 October 2011: <\/strong>Keynote speaker Raymond Tallis featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Raymond-Tallis-Takes-Out-the\/129279\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chronicle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 October 2011: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/03\/how-she-does-it-in-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Howze <\/a>takes the conference themes to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 October 2011: <\/strong>\u00a0If you can read Hebrew, you can read coverage of the conference in the Israeli daily newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.co.il\/gallery\/kids\/1.1486951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Haaretz&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12 September 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0 You can now watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0DwKUBRmpb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellie Lee debating Oliver James<\/a> on BBC&#8217;s Newsnight, the night before the conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 September 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0 Coverage of the conference in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nurseryworld.co.uk\/news\/1093415\/Politicians-misuse-science-push-own-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nursery World.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>17 September 2011: <\/strong>Zoe Williams in the Guardian &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2011\/sep\/17\/superwoman-motherhood-careers-zoe-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8216;Come back &#8216;Superwoman&#8217;: the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>17 September 2011:\u00a0 <\/strong>The Times slightly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/health\/child-health\/article3166459.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misses the point<\/a> in article suggesting that actually, the LATER years are more significant&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16 September 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Read Jennie Bristow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/jennie-bristow\/parenting-toddlers-dump-the-neurotrash_b_964032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a> article attacking the &#8216;science tells us&#8217; claims of family policy-makers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13 September 2011: <\/strong>Dr Stuart Derbyshire debates Samantha Callan of the Centre for Social Justice on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Woman&#8217;s Hour. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b014fd1z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The First Three Years &#8211; How critical are they?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11 September 2011: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global\/2011\/sep\/11\/are-parents-really-to-blame\">The Guardian&#8217;<\/a>s Zoe Williams debates with Guardian readers the significance of parenting to the riots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11 September 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/sep\/11\/childcare-parenting-neuroscience-nurture\">The Observer<\/a> highlights the key issues of the conference. The Observer article was also picked up by Canadian resources <a href=\"http:\/\/childcarecanada.org\/documents\/child-care-news\/11\/09\/why-parents-shouldnt-feel-guilty-if-they-cant-devote-time-their-todd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChildcareCanada.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childup.com\/blog\/conference-the-extreme-focus-on-early-childhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChildUp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 September 2011: <\/strong>Stuart Derbyshire summarises key points for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2011\/09\/05\/the-pseudoscience-of-the-parent-bashers\/\">Spiked Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>31 August 2011:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/files\/2011\/09\/Final-press-release.pdf\">Final press release<\/a> for &#8216;Monitoring Parents: science, evidence experts and the new parenting culture&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23 June 2011: <\/strong>Press notice for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/homepagestories\/monitoring_parents_science_evidence_epxerts_and_the_new_parenting_culture\/2011\">Monitoring Parents: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 July 2011: <\/strong>Dr Ellie Lee responds to Graham Allen and Iain Duncan-Smith&#8217;s announcement on Early Intervention policy.\u00a0 <a title=\"Government \u2018early intervention\u2019 plans are prejudice about parents masquerading as evidence, says University of Kent sociologist.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/in-the-news\/media-comment\/government-%e2%80%98early-intervention%e2%80%99-plans-are-prejudice-about-parents-masquerading-as-evidence-says-university-of-kent-sociologist\/\">&#8216;University of Kent sociologist says early intervention plans are prejudice about parents masquerading as evidence&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference has generated much media discussion over the past weeks. Read on below for coverage in British newspapers, Blogs\u00a0and on BBC radio. 9 October 2011: Keynote speaker Raymond Tallis featured in The Chronicle. 3 October 2011: Jennifer Howze takes the conference themes to the New York Times. 2 October 2011: \u00a0If you can read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"parent":811,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1101\/revisions\/4562"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}