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Editorial policy
Short version: every health claim links to a primary source, nothing is invented, affiliate income is disclosed on every page that carries a link, and we fix errors in public rather than quietly.
Sourcing
- Health and safety claims are sourced only to clinical bodies or peer-reviewed literature — NHS, AAP / HealthyChildren, Health New Zealand and Plunket, Mayo Clinic, WHO, or the study itself.
- No statistic appears without a link to where it came from. If we can only find a figure repeated second-hand, we say so in the text.
- We prefer sources under five years old, except for landmark studies that remain the reference point.
- Forums and Reddit are used to find out what people ask. They are never used as a source for what is true.
Health pages
Pages about choking, infant safety, and mental health carry a stronger disclaimer, a visible sources list, and a stricter rule: nothing goes in that isn't in the linked guidance. Where clinical bodies differ between countries, we say so rather than picking the one that reads better.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and change the updated date. Substantive corrections to health pages get a line on the page saying what changed. We don't silently edit an error out of existence.
Affiliate disclosure
DadPrep earns a commission if you buy Things I Wish I Knew Before You Were Born through a link on this site. This is disclosed next to every such link, not just here. It never changes your price. No other product on this site is monetised.
We will not recommend a product we haven't read, and we won't take payment for a review.
Advertising
The site also carries advertising served by Google AdSense, which pays for the research and hosting. Advertisers have no say in what is published here and never see who you are. How ad cookies work, and how to turn personalised ads off, is set out on the privacy page.
Ads are kept off the pages where they would be worst: nothing runs beside the choking-response page or the postpartum-depression page. A parent who has arrived there at 3am is not an audience to sell to.
What we won't publish
- Invented personal anecdotes or fabricated testimonials.
- Medical instruction beyond what a linked clinical source says.
- Fear-based content designed to sell something.
- Anything that treats fathers as secondary parents or as comic relief.
