Abstract
“Parenting is probably the most important public health issue facing our society. It is the single largest variable implicated in childhood illness”.1 Parenting has been identified by the present UK government as one of the main social areas to tackle. One of the first studies to report that poor parenting could lead to poor health was the Newcastle Thousand Families study. 45 years ago an editorial in this journal2 reviewed the first results from a prospective cohort study initiated by Sir James Spence of the health of 1142 infants born in May and June 1947 to mothers resident in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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