Frank Furedi Quotations

What we are doing is making children more insecure as our alarmist message becomes part of everyday life.

We are creating a new security state for children,

Parenting has become so intertwined with your identity that the way your child looks is seen as a direct extension of yourself. Having a particular buggy is a way of projecting your own desires and fantasies to the rest of the world.

Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders

If you look at the research that's published, it's always 'Research says that such-and-such will happen if you suntan,' and attached to that is usually a demand for more research money. That's how the fear market is created.