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.

• 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

"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