Overview
- Provides a timely contribution to the growing debate about the significance and implications of neuroparenting
- Examines neuroparenting historically, culturally and politically
- Presents arguments with clear implications for policy
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About this book
This book traces the growing influence of ‘neuroparenting’ in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby’s brain develops. Taking issue with the claims that ‘the first years last forever’ and that infancy is a ‘critical period’ during which parents must strive ever harder to ‘stimulate’ their baby’s brain just to achieve normal development, the author offers a trenchant and incisive case against the experts who claim to know best and in favour of the privacy, intimacy and autonomy which makes family life worth living.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociology, Family and Intimate Life, Cultural Studies, Neuroscience, Social Policy and Child Development, as well as individuals with an interest in family policy-making.
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About the author
Jan Macvarish is Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent, UK. She is the co-author of Parenting Culture Studies, (Palgrave, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuroparenting
Book Subtitle: The Expert Invasion of Family Life
Authors: Jan Macvarish
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54733-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54732-3Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54733-0Published: 20 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 116
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Developmental Psychology, Children, Youth and Family Policy