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Parents around the world engage in a range of parenting strategies aimed at raising successful children. These often take intensive forms, requiring substantial emotional, physical, and financial investment from parents. Papers in this session consider a variety of parenting practices and decision-making, including financial support, childcare and education choices, and protection of children’s well-being, from infancy to adulthood.
Sleeping through the Night: The Rationalization and Commodification of Baby Sleep - Emily Navarro, Elmhurst University
Priceless Parenting: Sacred childrearing, capitalism, and early childcare choices - Talya Wolf, CUNY-Graduate Center
Navigating Ambivalence around Advanced Learning: Korean Parents’ Meaning-Making in Their Choice of English-Language Kindergartens - Yeri Song, Yonsei University; Juyeon Park, Yonsei University
Beyond Investment: Uncovering the Protective Dimensions of Parenting and Unequal Childhoods in Korea - Eunsil Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Laundering Dependence: Cultural Contradictions of Parental Financial Support in Young Adulthood - Elena G. Van Stee, University of Pennsylvania