This editorial is a response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic and underlines the valuable
role that critical social science approaches to risk and uncertainty can play in helping us�…

To their everyday life with children, parents bring a number of ideas about development and
about parenting. Some of these ideas are about their own children and about themselves as�…

In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we
call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a�…

The purpose of this chapter is to survey some of the most important social constructions of
British childhood since the end of the eighteenth century in order to illustrate the historical�…

The rise of the Internet, social media, and digitized historical archives has produced a
colossal amount of text-based data in recent years. While computer scientists have�…

Abstract Family sociologist Martha McMahon asked a sample of full-time working mothers of
preschoolers to describe their experiences of pregnancy, motherhood, and the effects of�…

In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children's
consumer culture—and the commodification of childhood itself—by looking at the rise�…

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have
played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they�…

Research on parents' ideas has been described as flourishing but relatively atheoretical,
and as in need of closer attention to possible methods. To help meet these problems, this�…

They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The
news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to�…