- Steve Biddulph
Steve Biddulph (born 1953) is an Australian author, activist and
psychologist who has written a number of influential books and now speaks world wide. He has also been active on Australia's treatment of refugees, particularly those in immigration detention. He lives inEvandale ,Tasmania , with his wife and co-author Shaaron Biddulph.He has written a controversial book on
Nursery school (in other places also referred to as "childcare") "Raising Babies - Should Under 3's Go to Nursery?", published in England, in which he argues that institutional childcare is often inadequate, and largely undesirable, for babies.Books
His books include:
*"Raising Babies - Should Under 3's Go to Nursery?" (2006)
*"The Secret of Happy Children" [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/secret.htm] addressing what he sees as positive parenting strategies, that are informed by child development and child psychology researches and avoiding the authoritarian approaches of the 1940s and 1950's
*"More Secrets of Happy Children" [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/more-secrets.htm] advocates firm non-violent parenting and argueschild care is not appropriate for under twos.
*"The Making of Love" [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/making-of-love.htm] provides strategies for couples and argues that most divorces were potentially preventable and needless.
*"Manhood" [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/manhood.htm] from a mythopoetic andmen's liberation perspective argued for the important role of fathers, the need for them to engage with their children, to reconcile with their own fathers and the need for changes in social and workplace demands to facilitate this.
*"Raising Boys" [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/raising-boys.htm] presented strategies for parents to address the specific issues of parenting boys, with a chapter addressingsingle mothers . (A number one bestseller in a number of countries including Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Japan).He co-leads and funds the [http://www.sievxmemorial.com SievX National Memorial Project] , to remember, and help the survivors of the sinking of the
SIEV X .ee also
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Childcare
*Men's liberation
*Mythopoiesis
*Nursery school
*Parenting External links
* [http://www.stevebiddulph.com/steve_biddulph.htm Biography at Steve Biddulph website]
* [http://talk.gelworks.com.au/manhood.nsf/SteveSA?OpenPage Introduction to Steve Biddulph at Manhood Online] - also has links to a number of articles.
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/lifemats_20060330.mp3 Audio Download - Biddulph on Families and Siev-X] on ABCLife Matters , 31 March 2006 -
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