The natural-parenting movement, like the anti-vaccine movement, relies on our forgetfulness about what life was like before the innovations that it denounces.
Also like the anti-vaccine movement, the natural-parenting movement is a reaction to very real failures in our medical system, which has more than earned people’s distrust.
Natural parenting has since been thoroughly secularized, but it still preaches something akin to spiritual transcendence through female sacrifice.
Even if you distrust the natural-parenting movement, its pressures are hard to escape.
If the natural-parenting movement really cared about children, it would do some introspection about how often it makes their parents miserable.
Persons:
I’d, “, ”, who’ve, thrall, It’s, Carla Cevasco, don’t, —, Amy Tuteur, Dick, Read, Ina May Gaskin, William Sears, God, Emily Oster, Long, Gaskin, who’d, saccharine condescension
Organizations:
World Health Organization, OB, Harvard Medical, Leche League, Daily
Locations:
British, Leche