How relevant are ‘parenting issues’ to today’s innovation investment? 

Checking out these news stories may help you decide

This brief roundup highlights topical parenting stories in fields as diverse as social services, working conditions, employment legislation, employee motivation, environmental and disability issues:

• report shows that eco-aware living is a parenting priority for 21st century dads

Survey shows 45% of American men wanting to be remembered as ‘environmentally friendly fathers’

• bringing up a child ‘costs £800 ($1200) a month’

‘Spiraling cost of childcare pushing families into poverty’, claims report

• parents should be helped, not forced, to combine work and parenting

Shifting the blame for ‘lone parent hardship’ to ‘shirking fathers’ may prove unhelpful

• law gives dads time for parenting

Declining Japanese birthrate = increased paternity leave?

• are you a miserable parent?

Bringing meaning and purpose to our lives may not be enough

• Barbara Coloroso speaks to a new wave of parents: author of ‘Kids Are Worth It!’ now a grandmother, but her book endures

What has changed in parenting since 1994?

• blind dad feels way through perils of parenting

Predictable frustrations that you might not have considered, lessons for the rest of us

• motherhood: it’s not a competition

A new book stirs an old debate

• the growing trend of ‘baby planners’

Worth upto $150 an hour?