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Parenting - Laurie Taylor explores its cultural history and the shift towards intensive parenting. Also, how have these changes impacted grandmothers?

Parenting - Laurie Taylor explores its cultural history and the shift towards intensive parenting. Andrew Bomback, Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, investigates the emergence of an immersive, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive sport. Drawing on 鈥渉ow-to鈥� parenting books and historical accounts of parental duties he charts the way in which being a parent became a skill to be mastered.

They're joined by Benedetta Cappellini, who considers the impact of these social transformations on Grandmothers.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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29 minutes

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Mon 23 Jan 2023 00:15
麻豆社 Radio 4

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Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern聽Parenting (MIT Press)


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  • Wed 18 Jan 2023 16:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4
  • Mon 23 Jan 2023 00:15
    麻豆社 Radio 4

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