Wednesday, 1 February 2006

Thursday, 1 July 2004

You're a mother? You must be mad

When I started work, first as a midwife and then as a health visitor, in the early 80s, I was always on the lookout for mothers suffering from "baby blues" or the extremely rare "puerperal psychosis".

Friday, 19 October 2001

Smacks of interference

The Scottish executive’s proposal (News, 13 Sept 2001) to ban smacking children under the age of three and to make it illegal to hit children of any age on the head, should be viewed with grave concern by social workers north and south of the border.