Let's stand up to 'supernanny' (state)

Jennie Bristow's important, engaging and witty book both explains and critiques the tsunami of state meddling in family affairs. Ann Furedi This article is republished from the September 2009 issue of the spiked review of books. View the whole issue here. '[W]e are adults, not children to be bossed around. We should and must take responsibility for our own families and stand in solidarity with other parents.' Jane Sandeman’s foreword to Jennie Bristow’s witty, incisive and eminently readable book sums it up succinctly. The book is a clarion call for parents to resist the experts' persuasion that 'there is a recipe to be assiduously followed' that will produce the perfect child. Spiked Online

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