Parenting Support in the Dutch ‘Participation Society’

Abstract

This article focuses on ‘the turn to parenting’ in the Netherlands and embeds it in a major reform called ‘transition and transformation’. While support for parenting by way of public healthcare and denominational family care and advice has a long tradition in the Netherlands, the field gained new importance in the 1990s under the influence of medical and psychological ‘scientification’ and the introduction of evidence-based methods. Current reforms are modulated with a critique of specialised forms of parent support and (re-)introduce a community- and family-based approach in which professionals are charged with helping families to help themselves and with guiding and supervising volunteers who actually do the job of parenting support. Parenting Support in the Dutch ‘Participation Society’ (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281225099_Parenting_Support_in_the_Dutch_%27Participation_Society%27 [accessed Jan 19, 2016].