Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

Miriam Z. Langsam, Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

1986-12-01articleThe American Historical Review1,220 citationsclosed

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Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes Historical Economic and Social Studies History of Emotions Research

Abstract

Preface (1994)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction31From Mobs to Memorials: The Sacralization of Child Life222From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict Over Child Labor563From Child Labor to Child Work: Redefining the Economic World of Children734From a Proper Burial to a Proper Education: The Case of Children's Insurance1135From Wrongful Death to Wrongful Birth: The Changing Legal Evaluation of Children1386From Baby Farms to Black-Market Babies: The Changing Market for Children1697From Useful to Useless and Back to Useful? Emerging Patterns in the Valuation of Children208Notes229Index267

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