Positive relationships parents: Trying their hardest?

At a time when parents are coming under ever greater scrutiny and criticism for the way they bring up their children, a new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation challenges some of the commonly held assumptions about parents and parenting. While many 'parenting' studies concentrate on aspects such as discipline and opportunities for learning, Parenting in Ordinary Families: Diversity, complexity and change focuses primarily on the quality of the relationship between parent and child. The...