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Pricing the priceless child

by Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

1981 277 pages eng

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.

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