Pricing the Priceless Child
Subtitle: The Changing Social Value of Children
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780465063260
First sentence: ON JULY 22, 1903, Mary Miner, five years old, was playing with some friends across from her father's restaurant in the Bowery when she was struck and killed by a Third Avenue electric car.