Parents in the Spotlight

Children and parents have become a focus of debates on 'new social risks' in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.



Prof. Dr. Tanja Betz Member of the LOEWE Research Centre Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), Professor of Pedagogy with a focus on Childhood Research, Early Childhood and Primary Education, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Prof. em. Dr. Michael-Sebastian Honig Professor of Social Work, Research Group Early Childhood: Education and Care, University of Luxembourg Prof. em. Dr. Ilona Ostner Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy, University of Göttingen