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  • Parenting Support in Sweden: New Policies in Old Settings

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  • Åsa Lundqvist
  • Journal:
    Social Policy and Society / Volume 14 / Issue 4 / October 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 June 2015, pp. 657-668
    Print publication:
    October 2015

  • This article sets out to investigate the political development and implementation of parenting support services in Sweden. The object of the analysis is on how parenting support has been organised and how it has been articulated in policy debates, and also key elements of parenting support in practice. The analysis shows that parenting support builds upon a century-long tradition of, for example, pre-emptive health care check-ups and services to parents, counselling and parenting education. There are, however, elements in parenting support policy which mark a clear deviation from this policy legacy. These include the introduction of structured parenting programmes, the growth of the idea of parents as autonomous beings, and the partial relocation of parenting support into new public health goals.