{"id":3451,"date":"2017-05-18T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:17:39","slug":"conference-asks-who-should-be-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/05\/18\/conference-asks-who-should-be-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference asks who should be a mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Today&#8217;s conference <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/forthcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Policing pregnancy: who should be a mother?<\/a>&#8216; will explore\u00a0accepted ideas about pregnancy and the associated concepts of motherhood, risk and responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">One aspect under scrutiny is that of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The conference which is a collaboration between the <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bpas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Pregnancy Service<\/a><\/span>; <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.birthrights.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birthrights<\/a><\/span>; the University of Kent&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> <a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Parenting Culture Studies<\/a><\/span>; and\u00a0<a href=\"jennie.bristow@canterbury.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury Christ Church University&#8217;s\u00a0Engaging Sociology<\/a>, will examine the revised guidelines that came into force in January 2016. The advice, endorsed by the four UK nations\u2019 chief medical officers, deleted a longstanding reference to pregnant women potentially having one or two units of alcohol once or twice a week while expecting and instead said that they should not drink at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, maternal rights campaign group Birthrights and academics specialising in parenting say official advice on drinking in pregnancy is too prescriptive and is not based on reliable evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ellie Lee, director of Kent\u2019s Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, also thinks\u00a0the advice means pregnant women\u00a0will experience\u00a0social\u00a0exclusion:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cAs proving \u2018complete safety\u2019 [of drinking in pregnancy] is entirely impossible, where does this leave pregnant women? The scrutiny and oversight of their behaviour the official approach invites is not benign. It creates anxiety and impairs ordinary social interaction. And the exclusion of women from an ordinary activity on the basis of \u2018precaution\u2019 can more properly be called sexist than benign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This issue, amongst others, will be explored\u00a0during the conference, more information and research can be found on the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies&#8217; blog; you can also sign up to the CPCS <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/in-the-news\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s conference &#8216;Policing pregnancy: who should be a mother?&#8216; will explore\u00a0accepted ideas about pregnancy and the associated concepts of motherhood, risk and responsibility. 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