About the Author

Jennie Bristow is a journalist whose writing focuses on parenting issues and inter-generational relations. She writes the monthly "Guide for Subversive Parenting" for the online publication SPIKED, and runs the website parentswithattitude.com.

Reviews

"An engaging and witty critique of the tsunami of state meddling in family affairs." -- Ann Furedi Spiked! "This book is very readable and should be read by parenting and Sure Start workers because it is important to keep questioning what they are doing." -- Charlotte Goddard Children and Young People Now "Bristow and colleagues rightly see the means to correct alleged failures of parents as often a diversion from tackling poverty." -- Terry Philpot Young Minds Magazine