Evidence supports the establishment of healthy feeding practices early in life to promote
lifelong healthy eating patterns protective against chronic disease such as obesity. Current …

Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is
taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after …

This chapter outlines an 'intensification'of parenting: the process whereby child-rearing has
become a much more labour-intensive, demanding task. Drawing on work in the sociology …

Background The perceived risk/benefit balance of prescribed and over-the-counter (OTC)
medicine, as well as complementary therapies, will significantly impact on an individual's …

Mothers and pregnant women in contemporary western societies are at the centre of a web
of expert and lay discourses concerning the ways they should promote and protect the …

Environmental chemicals (eg, lead, pesticides, flame retardants) accumulate in all human
bodies and have the potential to affect the health of men and women, adults, and children …

This paper reports a cross-study analysis of four studies, aiming to understand the drivers of
parental consulting and clinician prescribing behaviour when children under 12 years …

All mothers at some point make a decision about whether to breast-or formula feed their
infant. Marital status, education, age, culture, and confidence have all been identified as …

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book
employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …

Breastfeeding is positively encouraged across many countries as a public health endeavour.
The World Health Organisation recommends breastfeeding exclusively for the first six …