- more on consumptive parents

Salon has an interview this weekend with Pamela Paul, author of the new book, “Parenting, Inc.” It’s a must read for anyone interested in the consumer culture of affluent Western parenting.
Paul tells Salon:
“I think that we have professionalized parenting, and in a consumer society that becomes translated into buying a lot of things. Parents [...]

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- is ideal parenting all about consumption?

Here at EarthQuaker’s suburban world headquarters we like to keep in touch with the world of hip, urban parenting, so we receive a daily email digest from Babble.com, the New York-based online parenting magazine.
That’s how we learned recently that even hipster parents find parenting a costly business these days.
Quoting parent Allyson Mazer, writer Melissa Rayworth [...]

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