Monthly Archives: April 2013
‘Pro-family’ politicians: a threat to the family
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on April 8, 2013
- Parenting culture,Politics and policy
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One of the great myths of British politics is that those who champion a liberal approach to abortion and divorce are ‘anti-family’, while those who wish to deny people the ability to have abortions and leave failed relationships are ‘pro-family’. To begin with, it is a myth in historical terms. Arguments that women should be […]
The politics of childbirth
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on April 2, 2013
- Policing pregnancy
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In her new book Bumpology, the British science journalist Linda Geddes aims to ‘investigate the truth behind the old wives’ tales, alarming newspaper headlines and government guidelines’ that frame a woman’s pregnancy in the twenty-first century. Though her research led her to question the orthodoxy on drinking alcohol in pregnancy and exclusive breastfeeding, what ‘most […]
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