Parents in the Spotlight

Download or read book Parents in the Spotlight written by Tanja Betz and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.