Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting
Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting
- July 9, 2026
- Nina Bandelj, sociology, shared her work with Reach Out and Read
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When, why, and how did we decide as a society to dedicate all our parenting resources to the "human capitalization of children"n – and at what cost? Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, joined Reach Out and Read to help answer this question (and many others) from her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting.”
Listen in via Reach Out and Read.
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