Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths - Paperback

by Alex Bollen (Author)

Blaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: the ugly world of Good Mother myths

Good Mother myths find mothers at fault whatever they do. Alex Bollen proposes 'motherdom', a new way to live. Motherdom values and respects the different ways people raise their children, shifting our focus from mother blame to the relationships and resources children need to flourish

Author Biography

Alex Bollen is a researcher with over twenty years of experience, including as a former director of the research agency Ipsos MORI. She is a Postnatal Practitioner with the NCT, the UK's largest parenting charity, and has been running postnatal groups for new mothers in South West London for over a decade. She is the mother of two children.