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Parents who get more involved with their children: is a symbolic revolution starting?

Parents who get more involved with their children: is a symbolic revolution starting?

Fatherhood is in transition. In recent years, the number of minutes parents spend on their children has increased , men’s participation in the perinatal period has increased, whether in visits to the gynecologist or in childbirth classes, and a genuine interest has flourished. for wanting to be more involved in childcare. However, there is still a way. There are many barriers , conscious and unconscious, that limit […] … learn more→

Children’s privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus

Children’s privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus

Schools globally have scrambled to adopt or expand use of technology to minimize learning disruptions related to COVID-19. Educational technology has long posed serious privacy and equality problems, and these problems are now reaching a boiling point. Hasty choices now could have long-term impacts. We are part of a seven-year research initiative, The eQuality Project, which examines young people’s experiences with privacy and […] … learn more→

What is solidarity? During coronavirus and always, it’s more than ‘we’re all in this together

What is solidarity? During coronavirus and always, it’s more than ‘we’re all in this together

Medical researchers around the world are involved in an unprecedented collaboration to test experimental treatments for COVID-19. When Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the initiative in mid-March, he called it the “solidarity trial.” Across the globe, local expressions of solidarity appear to be spreading as individuals take it upon themselves to […] … learn more→

Getting by and getting on

Getting by and getting on

I’ve spent a lot of time online shopping these last two weeks. Shopping for food. Before we went to Australia we’d let the store cupboard run down as we didn’t want to come home to rats, mice or moths. When we arrived home it was to a literally empty freezer and cupboard. So getting ourselves […] … learn more→

How to manage abusive use of screens during confinement

How to manage abusive use of screens during confinement

Platforms that offer all their content in open, applications to do zumba, aerobics, yoga or GAP, cooking channels, crafts, painting, DIY or crocheting on YouTube, memes and humor videos by WhatsApp, Telegram, Tik Tok , Snapchat and Instagram, a little while to disconnect with FIFA or to talk to friends at school in Fortnite … For several days, the confinement due to […] … learn more→

Co-parenting in the coronavirus pandemic: A family law scholar’s advice

Co-parenting in the coronavirus pandemic: A family law scholar’s advice

As millions of people around the world practice social distancing and self-quarantine, they are separating themselves from everyone but their immediate family members. However, for divorced or separated parents who share custody of their children, the definition of “immediate family” isn’t obvious. Already, family lawyers around the country are being inundated with calls from anxious parents worried […] … learn more→

China’s universities have been at the centre of its #MeToo movement

China’s universities have been at the centre of its #MeToo movement

China recently marked the second anniversary of its #MeToo movement and despite no robust legislation to curb sexual harassment on a national or institutional level, the movement has had some important victories driven mostly by students. Considering China’s ongoing censorship that has silenced various civic voices, the emergence and persistence of #MeToo should be regarded […] … learn more→

Bad behaviourism: analysing a psychological phenomenon

Bad behaviourism: analysing a psychological phenomenon

In 1920, psychologist John Watson described his infamous experiments on an infant in a bid to show that the human mind is a blank slate. A hundred years on, Antonio Melechi examines the rise and fall of behaviourism, and the utopian – or dystopian – reflexes that it conditione “Give me a dozen infants…and my own specified world to […] … learn more→