This book is a great read and very thought provoking, made immediate through a wide variety of examples of the way parenthood is being weakend as a process and relationship through a plethora of external influences, and how these are being increasingly internalised. Although my wife and I don't have any children of our own, we have many friends who do and have a relatively relaxed approach to looking after their children from time to time. Over the last few years though, we've become increasingly aware of the barriers being put in place to make that relaxed and spontaneous involvement in other childrens lives more awkward. Reading this book made sense of the changes taking place with our friends as they try and steer their way through a more distrustful world, and that it wasn't something isolated to our own friends but is more broad across society.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone concerned with making sense of our changing world.