Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society

Dimitra Hartas is Associate Professor in Special Education Needs and Disability at the University of Warwick, UK. She has previously published The Right to Childhoods.

"This is a powerful, persuasive and extremely important book. Dimitra Hartas forensically demolishes core presumptions underpinning contemporary parenting policy through a trenchant and compelling analysis of the evidence. This myth busting, ground-breaking, text should be compulsory reading for politicians, policy makers and family practitioners." - Professor Val Gillies, London South Bank University, UK

• PART I - THE EARLY HOME ENVIRONMENT IN AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY: DO PARENTS MATTER? 1. Home Learning Environment and Children's Learning and Wellbeing 2. Parents' Social Class Still Matters... 3. Parenting in an Unequal Society PART II- NEOLIBERAL FAMILY POLICY: EARLY INTERVENTION AND PARENT REMODELLING 4. Family Policy in the 21st Century Britain 5. Critical Reflections on Early Intervention 6. Neoliberalism and Family Policy in Britain PART III- PARENTING, CULTURE WARS AND CIVIC RENEWAL 7. Parenting: A New Culture War 8. Family Policy and the Capability Approach to Parents' and Children's Wellbeing 9. A New Paradigm for Family Policy: Civic Education, Equality and Public Reasoning