An Inuit woman named Keira, living in Denmark, has been forced to hand over her newborn baby, to state authorities just two hours after giving birth. Danish officials did not allow Keira to dress, breastfeed, or even soothe her baby before taking the child away. Authorities

Two recent articles highlight the scientifically unsound and ethically problematic use of one-size-fits-all measures in Early Childhood Development globally. It’s time for the #ECD field to take action. manvir singh newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… aeon.co/essays/the-pro…

Registration for the first international child and family conference University of Bristol is now open Southern Childhoods Gabriel Scheidecker valita me decía mi abuelo 💚💜 The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) Children's History Society @childhood Anandini Dar mohammed alruzzi | محمد الرزي Perivoli Africa Research Centre SHCY (@shcy.bsky.social) Didier Reynaert Dr Yuwei Xu 徐玉炜 K Reporters UoBris PolicyStudies

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

"Help Can Harm." In this new paper in Ethos, Nga T.T. Mai and I examine the unintended consequences of parenting interventions among Vietnamese migrant families in Germany. We argue that such harmful effects deserve much closer attention. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et…

New paper from Gabriel Scheidecker on the harms of parenting support; a must-read depth update on how the policing of families works in current parenting culture Ashley Frawley

Call for articles: "Children as caregivers: Ethnographic perspectives and political implications." For a special issue of the journal Childhood. Abstracts are due by 20 June.

Call for papers – Childhood journal has commissioned Marjorie Murray and me to edit a special issue on: "Children as Caregivers: Ethnographic Perspectives and Political Implications." Please consider submitting an abstract by June 20, 2025.

Looking forward this talk by Emely Yates-Doerr at the University of Zürich If you wish to participate online, please write me an email: [email protected]

Gabriel Scheidecker The Lancet Great paper! Thank you for highlighting these limiting and harmful western biases. I think paediatric health professionals in high income countries also must recognise and value multicultural ways in bringing up children within their communities.

Beyond deficit models in early childhood development science!

Happy to be part of this joint effort 💪🏾

“We are concerned the new Lancet Series [Early Childhood Development & the Next 1000 Days] maintains at its core, a deficit model, which can cause harm by misguiding interventions & promoting negative stereotypes about people living in poverty… [&] reflect epistemic injustice.”

🔹La investigadora #VioDemos, en CIIR y académica de Antropología UC, Marjorie Murray, organizó la mesa "Ethnographic insight for the study in child caretaking beyond invisibility and pathologizing", donde participó con Gabriel Scheidecker, Valeria Llobet y Rachel Rosen.

I know nuance breaks our brains these days but we need to be serious about this "forecast." Africa will not simply roll over and die without USAID. All this shock-inducing statistical narrative does is reinforce the very American-centrism that led to this mess in the first place

The most dangerous people in psychiatry aren't the small minority of pharma-funded 'Key Opinion Leaders', but the huge majority who uncritically defer to them.

A new look at the turn to 'parenting' anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et… Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 nmcdnyc