A noted social critic and author of <IT>Pornified<RO> examines the high cost of raising children in today's consumer-driven society, journeying inside the billion-dollar baby business to critique the marketing, myths, hype, peer pressure, and consumerism that causes parents to purchase overpriced items and raise overprotected, overstimulated, and over-privileged children. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.