Thanks. Credit to Sanchia Berg, Alex Chalk KC MP Laura Farris MP Maria_Miller Caroline Nokes MP & all built on your important work Sarah Champion challenging the vulnerability of children in the face of unrestricted parental rights for child sex offenders.

Back to basics: what is childcare policy for?

Civitas is delighted to host a panel discussion and Q&A by David Goodhart, Miriam Cates, @AlysDenby, Stephanie H. Murray and Christine Farquharson
on how the government can best support families with children in the early years.

Thank you British GLAMOUR for giving the space to write about Juila Fox’s horrific bikini: #endfgm . glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nimco-…

🚫Sexually explicit deepfakes🚫

We’re creating a new offence so anyone deliberately making a sexually explicit ‘deepfake’ image or video of another person without consent can be prosecuted.

If these horrific images are shared, offenders could face jail.

gov.uk/government/new…

Good to see this. There's a current push for an equality =sameness by which motherhood must be flattened so it takes up no more space than fatherhood. That doesn't work, particularly for breastfeeding.

Femicide Census comment on cases of men killing women where there are known histories of violence against women
femicidecensus.org/dangerous-men-…

Cass Review crystal clear on impact of horrible, violent porn on young girls.
Not surprisingly, many horrified by what they saw.
And had 'increased sexual, relational and body dissatisfaction'. Putting it mildly!
Time to stop porn reaching our kids.

cass.independent-review.uk/home/publicati…

Whatever your views on gender dysphoria it is worrying that the Cass review points to “early exposure to violent pornography” as a common experience.
Young people should not be establishing their identity from a Wild West of online pornography.

thetimes.co.uk/article/cb8e1b…

Consider for a moment the impact of all that - completely unnecessary - medication on such a young woman’s body.

“She said the teens told of pornography being used secretly in the classroom, and 'not being able to get away from these constant messages of how to be a man, how to be a woman.” ow.ly/pG7u50QWRGo

Domestic abuse victim Holly Bramley who was cut into 224 pieces by her husband has joined the heartbreaking roll call of women let down by authorities, murdered by partners after reporting them to police. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

“Make things cheaper so my parents don’t have to work so much and then we would have more time together as a family. Most of the time it is either my Mum or Dad at work and we don’t spend time together as a family. Also, they are always worried about the cost of things because…

.tylercowen asks the best questions and pushes the libertarian critique of my work the furthest. I get a little worked up and even, nearly, curse. But all in a good way. This conversation is very different from all my other ones.

There's still time to fill in our survey!
We want to hear from mums of 0-4s in the UK... What would best support you and your family in these early years?

theotherhalf.uk/early-years-su…

Read the summary and preliminary findings from the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls ahead of her full report to be released later this year. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

This Janice Turner piece is great and so timely. Honesty about motherhood is one thing, but there is an increasing and rather corporate drumbeat that motherhood is a trap, a harm, an ending.

'Viewers are frequently not seeing sex, but sexual violence. How can we ever hope to challenge violence against women and girls as long as content like this is easily accessible, by an ever-younger audience, and deemed simply ‘part of life’.'

A Danish kindergarten. Playing outdoors, even in mud, is part of each day. It's essential for children's sensory development. It's essential for children to be children. For the rest, grown-ups invented the washing machine.

#GoodMorning , everyone

The tipping point has arrived in the UK; parents are fed up and taking action to roll back the phone-based childhood. Here is Sophie Winkleman, on how its not enough to remove harmful content...

spectator.co.uk/article/why-im…