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Valuing Children

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  • ISBN:9780674026322
  • Editorial: Harvard University Press
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  • Nº Pág.:224
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets - primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and "investments" in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy.Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves.Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.She also emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle and describes the need to rethink the very structure and logic of the welfare state. A new institutional structure could promote more cooperative, sustainable, and efficient commitments to the next generation.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Conceptualizing the Costs of Children
1 Children and the Economy 11
2 Commitments and Capabilities 27
II Private Spending on Children in the United States
3 Defining the Costs of Children 45
4 Children and Family Budgets by Tamara Ohler 65
5 Children outside the Household 79
6 Accounting for Family Time by Jayoung Yoan 96
7 Valuing Family Work 121
III Public Spending on Children in the United States
8 Subsidizing Parents 139
9 Public Spending on Children's Education and Health 160
10 Who Should Pay for the Kids? 178
Notes 193

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