Pricing the priceless child
Subtitle: the changing social value of children
By: Viviana A. Zelizer.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Child rearing -- United States -- Costs; Child labor -- United States; Children -- United States -- Public opinion -- History; Public opinion -- United States -- History; Social values
Description: This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary worth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-266) and index.
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985.