From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
Penny Sarchet’s review of the book Motherdom was refreshing. Having successfully medicalised pregnancy and childbirth, and so brought it under the control of mostly upper-middle-class, white, male, establishment authority figures, the same is being done with child rearing using spurious and misleading references to neuroscience. In the UK, at least, the education system has gone the same way, having been reshaped to fit the political prejudices of those in power rather than following the evidence (8 March, p 22).
