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1970s: Summary
Tuesday 09 December 2008
American writer Jean Liedloff developed the idea that babies should be held constantly after spending time in the South American jungle with the Yequana tribe.
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1960s: Pros and Cons
Tuesday 09 December 2008
Advantages of the notion that every baby is different
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1960s: Background
Tuesday 09 December 2008
The laissez-faire ethos of the 1960s meant that anything goes – and in a sense that applied to childrearing.
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1960s: Summary
Tuesday 09 December 2008
In the 1960s, the most influential book of the era was Dr Benjamin Spock's Baby and Childcare.
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1950s: Pros and Cons
Tuesday 09 December 2008
The advantages and disadvantages to some of Dr Truby King's methods.
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1950s: Summary
Tuesday 09 December 2008
In the 1950s, women were inspired by the methods of New Zealand health reformer Dr Frederic Truby King.
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