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Barcode30053003820878
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No649.1 BAND
Title Overinvested : the emotional economy of modern parenting / Nina Bandelj.
Author Bandelj, Nina, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 600-699
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003820878649.1 BAND1/14/2026 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Bandelj, Nina, author.
Title Statement Overinvested : the emotional economy of modern parenting / Nina Bandelj.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
Physical Description 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content Type still image rdacontent
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
General Note Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Summary, Etc. "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 important job, and commit their entire selves to being a good parent. The economization and emotionalization of society work together to drive parental overinvestment, offering a dizzying array of products and platforms to turn children into human capital--from financial instruments to extracurricular programs to therapeutic parenting advice. And yet, Bandelj warns, the privatization of child-rearing and devotion of parents' monies, emotions, and souls ultimately hurt the well-being of children, parents, and society. Overinvested offers a compelling argument that we should reimagine children and what it means to raise them."--Goodreads.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Parents Psychology.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Child rearing.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Child rearing Economic aspects.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Parents Economic conditions.

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