From "compensation" to "childhood wonder" Why parents buy

From "compensation" to "childhood wonder"

Why parents buy

Pugh

Allison J.

Pugh, Allison J.

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

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This paper considers how American parents consume on behalf of their children, and their reasons for doing so, in the hopes of helping to untangle the work/family knot at the center. My research involves interviews and fieldwork with a white, largely middle-class sample of married and single mothers of 8-year-old children and is part of a larger study of what I call "child-rearing consumption" in general. In this paper, I outline a working typology of why parents consume and then delve more deeply into two of the most important aspects: consumption as compensation and as a conduit to childhood wonder.

Allison Pugh is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Working Families and a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 39

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 39

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