Paranoid Parenting
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May 22, 2023
In 2001, Professor Frank Furedi wrote 'Paranoid Parenting', arguing that a ‘culture of fear’ pervades parenting today, with parents perceiving their children as vulnerable, and as being perpetually at risk from several threats: from strangers, traffic, toys, and from the threat of falling behind in their development. Parenting today has become an ordeal in which…