Overinvested The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting
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- date: 21 January 2026
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Overinvested The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting | 4.1 MB
Title: Overinvested
Author: Nina Bandelj
Category: Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
Language: English | 384 Pages | ISBN: 069127004X
Description:
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? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work. At the turn of the twentieth century, children went from being economically useful, often working to support families, to being seen by their parents as vulnerable and emotionally priceless. In the new millennium, however, parents have become overinvested in the emotional economy of parenting.
Analyzing in-depth interviews with parents, national financial datasets, and decades of child-rearing books, Bandelj reveals how parents today spend, save, and even go into debt for the sake of children. They take on parenting as the hardest but most...
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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? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work. At the turn of the twentieth century, children went from being economically useful, often working to support families, to being seen by their parents as vulnerable and emotionally priceless. In the new millennium, however, parents have become overinvested in the emotional economy of parenting.
Analyzing in-depth interviews with parents, national financial datasets, and decades of child-rearing books, Bandelj reveals how parents today spend, save, and even go into debt for the sake of children. They take on parenting as the hardest but most...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/9e0443a7372b0acaa6766152ef199fcc/Overinvested_The_Emotional_Economy_of_Modern_Parenting.epub
https://nitroflare.com/view/3C30FB12F168CB6/Overinvested_The_Emotional_Economy_of_Modern_Parenting.epub
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