Overinvested : the emotional economy of modern parenting /
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?
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2026.
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Table of 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