Neuroparenting (eBook)
IX, 116 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-54733-0 (ISBN)
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.
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).
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.
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).
Acknowledgements 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 10
Chapter 1: What Is Neuroparenting? 11
Normalising Parent Training 16
The Requirements of Neuroparenting 19
The Power of the Brain 20
The Parenting Deficit 22
Love Biologised 24
Hiding Behind Babies’ Brains 25
References 26
Chapter 2: The Claims of Neuroparenting 29
‘Killer Facts’ 31
Two Constructions of the Brain 32
The Wondrous Brain 32
The Vulnerable Brain 36
Toxic Substances 36
Toxic Technology 38
Toxic Environments 39
Toxic Parents 41
Toxic Stress 44
Pathologising Family Life 45
References 47
Chapter 3: Neuroparenting and the Quest for Natural Authority 51
Natural or Scientific Parenting? 51
Can We Learn from Animals? 54
Critical Periods and Windows of Opportunity 55
Bonding and Attachment 56
Talking and Playing 58
Parents as a Barrier to Progress 59
Nature and Nature 61
The Political and Expert Colonisation of Nurture 63
Tensions Between Determinism and Intervention 65
The Search for Universal Rules of Behaviour 66
References 68
Chapter 4: Neuroparenting and the State 70
A Cause in Search of an Argument 72
Enter the Neuroscience 74
Neuroparenting Entrepreneurs 77
Popular Disseminators 79
The Therapeutic State 80
Are We All Dysfunctional Now? 83
References 83
Chapter 5: Getting Inside the Family 86
Instrumentalising Everyday Life 88
Sapping Parental Authority 92
Professionalising Parenting 94
Normalising Help-Seeking 94
Exploiting the Transition to Parenthood 96
New Rituals for Old 98
Undermining Parental Love 101
References 102
Chapter 6: The Problem with Neuroparenting 104
Presumed Helplessness 106
Further Intensifying Motherhood 108
What Becomes of the Parent? 113
What Becomes of the Child? 113
What Becomes of the Family? 115
What Becomes of Community? 116
A Defence of Parental Love 117
References 118
Index 122
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.9.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 116 p. 1 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Autism • Babies • Bonding • children • intimate life • John Bruer • Neuroscience • parenting culture • Parents • postnatal depression |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-54733-2 / 1137547332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-54733-0 / 9781137547330 |
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