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9780805089240

Parenting, Inc. How the Billion-Dollar Baby Business Has Changed the Way We Raise Our Children

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805089240

  • ISBN10:

    0805089241

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-31
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Summary

Parent coaches, ergonomic strollers, music classes, sleep consultants, luxury diaper creams, a never-ending rotation of DVDs that will make a baby smarter, socially adept, and bilingual before age three. Time-strapped, anxious parents are the perfect mark for the "parenting" industry.

Author Biography

Pamela Paul is the author of Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. A frequent contributor to Time and The New York Times, she has also written for The Washington Post, Slate, Psychology Today, Redbook, Self, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Economist. She and her family live in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Mother Loadp. 1
Gearing Upp. 15
Target: Parentsp. 53
Trouble in Toylandp. 89
Let Us Edutain Youp. 115
Class Timep. 144
Pamperedp. 179
Outsourcing Parenthoodp. 219
Conclusion: The Bottom Linep. 261
Notesp. 273
Acknowledgmentsp. 289
Indexp. 291
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