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by Pamela Paul

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A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what's worth their money--and what's a waste.

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"An entire industry preys on parental anxiety . . . Paul tries to lead us out of the catastrophization of childhood."--The New York Times Book Review

Parenting 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 hoping to provide the best for their baby are the perfect mark for the "parenting" industry.

In Parenting, Inc., Pamela Paul investigates the whirligig of marketing hype, peer pressure, and easy consumerism that spins parents into purchasing overpriced products and raising overprotected, overstimulated, and over-provided-for children. Paul shows how the parenting industry has persuaded parents that they cannot trust their children's health, happiness, and success to themselves. She offers a behind-the-scenes look at the baby business so that any parent can decode the claims--and discover shockingly unuseful products and surprisingly effective services.

Paul's book leads the way for every parent who wants to escape the spiral of fear, guilt, competition, and consumption that characterizes modern American parenthood.

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  • Title Parenting, Inc.: How the Billion-Dollar Baby Business Has Changed the Way We Raise Our Children
  • Author Pamela Paul
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks
  • Publication date 2009-03-31
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780805089240 / 0805089241
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 9 x 0.9 in (15.24 x 22.86 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Family / Parenting / Childbirth
  • Dewey Decimal Code 649.122

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  • New York Times Book Review, 07/12/2009, Page 20

About the author

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.

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