Knowledge, culture and parenting apps

07/11/2025 28 min
Knowledge, culture and parenting apps

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Episode Synopsis


There's an app for everything these days, including parenting and childrearing - but at what cost? Women in the Global South are increasingly using parenting apps, whose Western developers say their advice is scientific and reliable. But that modern, scientific advice is edging out older, traditional childrearing wisdom and causing intergenerational tension.