{"id":3994,"date":"2020-11-02T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=3994"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:33:07","slug":"ros-edwards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/about\/10-year-anniversary\/past-future\/ros-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ros Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, CPCS has provided a much needed space for investigation of and reflection on parenting culture.\u00a0 For researchers like me with an interest in family policies and family lives, parenting and mothering practices and interventions, its existence is intellectually valuable.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased that the CPCS\u2019s particular perspective on the issues raised by parenting culture has a presence in the field, and have appreciated the activities that are organised under the aegis of the centre.\u00a0 Stand out events for me include conferences on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/previous-events\/parenting-science\/\">monitoring parents<\/a> in 2011, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/previous-events\/parenting-and-personhood\/.\">parenting and personhood<\/a> in 2016.\u00a0 At each of these I was able to listen and learn \u2013 and to network.\u00a0 CPCS has excellent international and multidisciplinary reach, and I\u2019ve benefitted from meeting colleagues\u2019 working on similar topics of interest in, for example, Norway, Ireland, the USA and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Across the years, I\u2019ve often found myself sharing an interest in features of parenting culture with colleagues at CPCS.\u00a0 These are all issues that have been or are hotspots for the intense focus of political rhetoric, media attention and professional interventions in family lives as the root of social problems.\u00a0 The stigmatisation of teenage mothers.\u00a0 The stoking of generational wars to cover for austerity.\u00a0 The use of brain science to blame poor mothering as creating deprivation and justify early intervention.\u00a0 The rise of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) as a determinist framework for adult outcomes.\u00a0 We may have different critical takes on these issues, or at least in relation to particular aspects of how we may understand what social processes are in play, where, why and how.\u00a0 But the important point is that CPCS is always a welcoming space with colleagues open to alliance, and a commitment to offer an informed, considered and critical analysis of the push to prescriptive intervention in how mothers bring up their children.\u00a0 Congratulations to CPCS on their 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, CPCS has provided a much needed space for investigation of and reflection on parenting culture.\u00a0 For researchers like me with an interest in family policies and family lives, parenting and mothering practices and interventions, its existence is intellectually valuable.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased that the CPCS\u2019s particular perspective on the issues raised by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":0,"parent":3889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3994"}],"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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}