Surveys conducted over the last few years on representative samples in the US and
Germany suggest that the percentage of parents who regret having children is …

Online parenting forums are popular sources of information about childhood vaccinations,
but vaccination discussions, especially online, are often polarised and polarising (Jenkins & …

Social network sites allow users participation as sharing of information, exchange of ideas
and presentation of themselves. In this process, the focus is on a wide range of formerly …

In this paper, we use Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to look at the posts of
influencers using parenting hashtags on Chinese Weibo. It has been observed that …

Whilst previous research into mothering on social media has focused on representations of
intensive mothering ideology, this paper argues that social media are fundamentally …

Guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT), we analyzed 85 first-person testimonials of
parental regret written by users of the/r/childfree subreddit. We interrogated how competing …

COVID-19 has become a mental health pandemic. The impact on vulnerable demographic
groups has been particularly severe. This paper focuses on women in employment in Hong …

This paper begins with the common phrase 'good girl'as a lens through which to explore the
insidious nature of patronising and paternalistic language on women's agency in obstetric …

This paper examines the relationship between school closures during the Covid-19
pandemic and the ideology of intensive mothering through analysis of posts on lockdown …

Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the
subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Recent years have seen growing …