Stories
- Article
Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Photo story
A portrait of me with my mother
A series of portraits with stand-in mothers helped Camilla Greenwell to process her grief, and then to question whether our photograph albums are ever really honest.
Catalogue
- Journals
Mother and child.
Date: [1930-1974]- Books
- Online
Mother and child / Part I. Mother, by Edward P. Davis. Part II. Child, by John Keating.
Date: 1893- Books
Mother and child : maternity and child welfare in Dublin, 1922-60 / Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
Earner-Byrne, Lindsey.Date: 2007- Books
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Mother and child / by Edward P. Davis.
Davis, Edward P. (Edward Parker), 1856-1937.Date: 1911- Books
Mother and child in the Greek world / Robert Garland.
Garland, Robert, 1947-Date: 1986