About this episode

Nina Bandelj discusses her book on the emotional economy of modern parenting and the issue of parental burnout.

Nina Bandelj is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Today we are talking about her new book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting . She addresses the problem of parental burnout among America parents from an economic sociological perspective and comes to very similar conclusions that people such a Meredith Elkins have come to from a clinical perspective. For more information https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/overinvested This conversation is for information purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advise

People in this episode

Host: Edward Plimpton

Guest: Nina Bandelj

Topics covered

• parental burnout
• emotional economy
• modern parenting
• sociology
• economic perspective

Keywords

• parental burnout
• emotional economy
• modern parenting
• Nina Bandelj
• sociology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of California, Irvine

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