How much independence should children have? – Features – Health & Families – The Independent

31/07/2014 0:00

How much independence should children have? – Features – Health & Families – The Independent

” In 2001, as adult supervision seemed to be extending into every aspect of children’s lives, Frank Furedi wrote the seminal ‘Paranoid Parenting’. Now, as a mother who let her nine-year-old go to the park alone is jailed for abandonment, he realises that the problem is far worse than even he imagined then.”

Tess Michaels