Two-Year-Olds Are Often Cruel
Mary Hannity: Maternal Ethics, 2 February 2023
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood and the British Welfare State
by Shaul Bar-Haim.
Pennsylvania, 352 pp., £60, August 2021,978 0 8122 5315 3 Show More
by Shaul Bar-Haim.
Pennsylvania, 352 pp., £60, August 2021,
“... of mothers of the necessary conditions of bringing up healthy children’, as Major General Sir Frederick Maurice put it. Declining birth rates, rising infant mortality and anxieties about securing the empire focused government attention on the new ‘science’ of mothercraft.The early decades of the 20th century saw the rise of a culture of expertise ... ”