‘Ideas that the quality of parental nurturing and attachment in the first years of a child’s life is hard-wiring their brains for success or failure, are reflected in policy reports and in targeted services delivering early intervention.

Rather than upholding the ‘hopeful ethos’ proffered by advocates of the progressive nature of brain science and early intervention, we show that brain claims are justifying gendered, raced and social inequalities, positioning poor mothers as architects of their children’s deprivation’

Read the full article by Rosalind Edwards here. Read her CRFR blog ‘The politics of neuroscience and early intervention’ from 2013 here.

Rosalind will be a stream leader at the CRFR International Conference 2016.