Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Conceptualizing the Costs of Children -- 1. Children and the Economy -- 2. Commitments and Capabilities -- II. Private Spending on Children in the United States -- 3. Defining the Costs of Children -- 4. Children and Family Budgets...

A fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class