We are creating a new security state for children.
"Frank Furedi" is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He is well known for his work on culture of fear/sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, paranoid parenting and sociology of knowledge.
More Frank Furedi on Wikipedia.If you look at the research that's published, it's always 'Research says that such-and-such will happen if you suntan,' and attached to that is usually a demand for more research money. That's how the fear market is created.
Parenting has become so intertwined with your identity that the way your child looks is seen as a direct extension of yourself. Having a particular buggy is a way of projecting your own desires and fantasies to the rest of the world.
What we are doing is making children more insecure as our alarmist message becomes part of everyday life.
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