TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zelizer,Viviana A.Rotman
TI  - Pricing the priceless child: the changing social value of children 
SN  - 0691034591
AV  - HQ792.U5 Z45 1994
U1  - 305.230973 23
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Child rearing
KW  - United States
KW  - Costs
KW  - Child labor
KW  - Children
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - Social values
N1  - Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985; Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index; Preface (1994) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From mobs to memorials: the sacralization of child life -- From useful to useless: moral conflict over child labor -- From child labor to child work: redefining the economic world of children -- From a proper burial to a proper education: the case of children's insurance -- From wrongful death to wrongful birth: the changing legal evaluation of children -- From baby farms to black-market babies: the changing market for children -- From useful to useless and back to useful? emerging patterns in the valuation of children -- Notes -- Index
N2  - 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
ER  -