Childhood and Markets by Lydia Martens

Author:Lydia Martens
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781137315038
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

6It was, however, not uncommon for smaller commercial players (family businesses) to bring their young children and babies with them to The Baby Show, and on one of my excursions, a toddler could be seen to help demonstrate the uses of the baby sling, by sitting, facing outwards, wrapped up against the body of his father.

7The question whether infants can be ‘for sale’, can take on monetary value in their own right, is reflected in the culturally contentious examples of adoption, surrogate mothering, and IVF conception. These practices were not present in the commercial environments researched here, confirming the heightening of cultural contradictions around such practices when associated with pecuniary value . See Traver (2013) for a discussion on adoption; Thompson (2005) on IVF, and Taylor et al. (2004) for other examples.

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