Pressure to Raise the 'Perfect Child'
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Lenore Skenazy (New York columnist, author, 'America's Worst Mum') on the pressure to create a perfect parent, and perfect kid, in our child-obsessed culture. How safe are our children? Can we let them roam around the streets unsupervised as many of us did when we were young? Or is today’s world too dangerous a place?
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