If there's one person who has made the child/commerce connection, it's Pamela Paul. She's the author of Parenting, Inc. and Babble contributor with a dispatch this week
that, and perhaps I'm speaking only for myself here, reassured those of
us parents who never managed to follow through on the baby sign
language classes, thereby condemning our children to low IQs and drool.
Well, she's digging in deeper to the idea of kids and cost in a recent Washington Post essay,
where she's talking about the status of the third child, particularly
for those raising their families in expensive cities. Apparently, Baby
No. 3 is something of a luxury good.
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