Children, Young People and Families
COVID-19 and the impact of lockdown on young fathers’ involvement in family care and remote learning
Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way talk about the research they’ve done on the effects of the lockdowns on young fathers in the UK.…Read more
Shannon K. Carter and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster, authors of 'Sharing Milk', discuss how they joined and participated in local lactation support groups, and learned that milk sharing is a deeply meaningful and emotion-driven practice for the people who do it.…Read more
An extract from Charlotte Faircloth, Katherine Twamley and Humera Iqbal's 'Families, Relationships and Societies' article on the methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic.…Read more
Louca-Mai Brady explains the benefits of youth participation in health services, for healthcare professionals as well as youngsters themselves, and reports on the implications of COVID-19 on this youth voice.…Read more
Patricia Hamilton, author of 'Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting', examines Black mothers’ engagement with attachment parenting, within the mainstream representation of attachment parents as White and Black mothers as neglectful.…Read more
Sarah Nelson, author of 'Tackling Child Sexual Abuse', explains how COVID-19 has increased the urgency for action against child sexual abuse and examines reasons for failure and models of practice as identified in the book.…Read more
Lindsey German, contributor to 'Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Insights', explains why, when we talk about how work and society should change post COVID-19, we must put the role of women and work at the centre of our analysis.…Read more
Drawing on the 'Moving, Always Moving' report from the Children's Society - published today - this article shows the value of listening to children speak about the failure of the policies that shape their lives, and calls for them to be heard in the post-COVID-19 rebuild.…Read more
Janet Batsleer and James Duggan, authors of 'Young and Lonely: The Social Conditions of Loneliness', call for a new way of thinking and talking about young people’s loneliness.…Read more
Susan Kay-Flowers, author of 'Childhood Experiences of Separation and Divorce', considers some of the challenges of isolation specifically faced by children of separated parents during lockdown, when the usual support networks were out of reach. …Read more