When 37-year-old Heather Marcoux was expecting her son several years ago, she and her husband assumed it would be the first of several pregnancies. “We certainly thought we had more than one,” says Marcoux, who lives in Alberta, Canada. But today, the parents are very clear that their son, now of primary school age, will … Read more
“The same way people make wine” The first time researcher Heather McIlvaine-Newsad became aware of cannamoms was around 2018, due to the emergence of Facebook groups dedicated to the new social movement. A professor of anthropology and co-founder of the interdisciplinary minor in cannabis and culture at Western Illinois University, McIlvaine-Newsad noted that some of … Read more
Psychologist Leon Kuczynski of the University of Guelph, who studies the agency in children, points out a double standard: We expect children to conform, but not to an adult. “The essence of parenthood concerns the way of managing the non-respect of children, with the idea of eliminating it … From early childhood, children’s resistance is … Read more