Do We Need a ‘Naughty Step’? Rethinking the Parenting Order After Ten Years

Burney, Elizabeth; Gelsthorpe, Loraine

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2008.00538.x

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“…The focusing on individual mothers and their individual child's issues means that structural poverty is made less visible. The mother is blamed for what she cannot do because of issues such as poverty, domestic violence, and poor neighbourhood infrastructure (Burney and Gelsthorpe 2008;Lister 2006;Vincent, Ball, and Braun 2010).…”

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I blame the mother: educating parents and the gendered nature of parenting orders

Peters

2012

Gender and Education

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There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the source of their child's anti-social behaviour both in and outside of the formal school setting. One intervention proffered is the parenting order. The language of parenting orders and parenting interventions obscures a distinct truth, that parenting orders are really mothering orders. This paper draws on findings generated during interviews with 26 parents attending a parenting education programme in a city in the north of England. This paper explores the gendered nature of parental education, in that the overwhelming majority of parents ordered by the courts to attend parenting classes are women. The paper explores mothers' experiences of receiving coercive parenting education, examines the reasons why mothers were given parenting orders and explores the nature of these mothers' relationships with their child's school. IntroductionParenting orders were first introduced to England and Wales in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, New Labour's flagship law and order act which also established anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs). Parenting orders were made available when a young person was given an ASBO, or they were convicted of a criminal offence. With respect to truancy, a parenting order could be triggered if a parent was convicted of an offence under section 443 (failure to comply with school attendance order) or section 444 (failure to secure regular attendance at school of registered pupil) of the Education Act 1996. Education-related parenting orders are extended by two further pieces of legislation; the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 provides for parenting orders when a child is excluded from school, and the Education and Inspections Act 2006 allows schools to apply directly to the courts for an order following a child's serious misbehaviour which if continued would warrant exclusion from school.Parents subject to an order must participate in a parenting support and education service as directed by the magistrates court (a court that deals with less serious criminal issues). The parenting order is supervised by an 'appropriate officer', named in the guidance produced by Government departments as a probation officer, social worker or other local authority social services officer or a Youth Offending Team 1 officer

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I blame the mother: educating parents and the gendered nature of parenting orders

Peters

2012

Gender and Education

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“… 1 See Burney and Gelsthorpe (2008) for a review of the history, policy and practice of parenting orders and see Holt (2008) for a theoretical analysis of its positioning within wider modes of governance. …”

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(En)Gendering Responsibilities: Experiences of Parenting a ‘Young Offender’

Holt

2009

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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This article discusses how parenting a 'young offender' involves specific additional responsibilities for parents who are already under scrutiny for apparently not taking their parenting responsibilities seriously. With reference to empirical data, three specific parental tasks are considered: managing the family's involvement in the youth justice system, waiting on 'standby' for police and schools, and reporting the child's offences to the police. In doing so, this article highlights the ways in which gender is implicated, and performs a regulatory function, in the day-to-day lives of mothers and fathers who are parenting a 'troublesome' child.

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“…There did not appear to be any specific reason as to why each of the parents were identified as ‘in need’ of a Parenting Order — indeed, many parents felt at a loss to explain why they had been ‘singled out’. Furthermore, research suggests that reasons for issuing may have more to do with local magistratial and practitioner practice cultures than specific parental characteristics (see Burney and Gelsthorpe, 2008; Longstaff, 2004).…”

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“…In doing so, parents can legitimately claim the subject position of ‘good parent’ for themselves. For example, many parents claimed that the most useful element of their parenting support programme was how it enabled them to manage the parental blame which comes with parenting a young offender, and which, as has been argued elsewhere (see Burney and Gelsthorpe, 2008; Holt, 2008), the Parenting Order exacerbates:…”

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Managing ‘Spoiled Identities’: Parents’ Experiences of Compulsory Parenting Support Programmes

Holt

2010

Children & Society

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While recent years have seen a rapid growth of research exploring the usefulness of parenting support programmes, no empirical research to date has specifically explored experiences of compulsory parenting support. The present study examines the narrative accounts of 17 parents who, through a Parenting Order, were made to participate in such programmes. Findings suggest that the particular nature of court‐sanctioning, and the ‘spoiled identity’ it produces, shapes how parents subsequently experience their parenting support. It concludes that government rhetoric should not use findings from voluntary attendance to support extending the use of compulsory parenting support programmes.

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Do We Need a ‘Naughty Step’? Rethinking the Parenting Order After Ten Years

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

I blame the mother: educating parents and the gendered nature of parenting orders

I blame the mother: educating parents and the gendered nature of parenting orders

(En)Gendering Responsibilities: Experiences of Parenting a ‘Young Offender’

Managing ‘Spoiled Identities’: Parents’ Experiences of Compulsory Parenting Support Programmes

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