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Overinvested : the emotional economy of modern parenting / Nina Bandelj.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bandelj, Nina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child rearing--Economic aspects.
- Child rearing.
- Parents--Psychology.
- Parents.
- Parents--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- What happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting labor Parents are exhausted.When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort?
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Part I Invest!
- 1 The Child as Human Capital
- 2 Our Emotional Lives
- 3 Invested Parenting
- Part II Finance!
- 4 The Price of Priceless Childcare
- 5 Affording (Or Not) a Good Education
- Part III Labor!
- 6 Labor of Love
- 7 Mom's (Impossible) Job
- Part IV Stop! (or, What Has the Parenting Economy Wrought)
- 8 The Parenting Business and Its Underbelly
- 9 The Tragedy of the Parenting Commons
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780691270067
- 0-691-27006-6
- OCLC:
- 1550169108
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