Until very recently, the ideal parent was invisible. But suddenly everybody - political parties, pressure groups, educationalists and the media - particularly the media - is interested in "the parent question": how do we make good parents? But who defines "good" anyway? Can there be a consensus on parenting? And why has a vague national anxiety become a moral panic? This book explores the debate.
MAUREN FREELY was born in the United States and grew up in Istanbul. She was educated at Harvard University. Perhaps best known as translator of the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, she is a journalist and a professor at the University of Warwick. She lives in England.
