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With the intensity of the California gold rush, corporations are racing to stake their claim on the consumer group formerly known as children. What was once the purview of a handful of companies has escalated into a gargantuan enterprise estimated at over $15 billion annually. While parents struggle to set limits at home, marketing executives work day and night to undermine their efforts with irresistible messages.

In Consuming Kids, psychologist Susan Linn takes a comprehensive and unsparing look at the demographic advertisers call the kid market, taking readers on a compelling and disconcerting journey through modern childhood as envisioned by commercial interests. Children are now the focus of a marketing maelstrom, targets for everything from minivans to M&M counting books. All aspects of children's lives their health, education, creativity, and values are at risk of being compromised by their status in the marketplace.

Interweaving real-life stories

Consuming Kids

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    A Hardback by Susan Linn

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      Publisher The New Press
      Published 6 May 2004
      ISBN-13 9781565847835
      978-1565847835
      ISBN-10 1565847830

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      Book Synopsis
      With the intensity of the California gold rush, corporations are racing to stake their claim on the consumer group formerly known as children. What was once the purview of a handful of companies has escalated into a gargantuan enterprise estimated at over $15 billion annually. While parents struggle to set limits at home, marketing executives work day and night to undermine their efforts with irresistible messages.

      In Consuming Kids, psychologist Susan Linn takes a comprehensive and unsparing look at the demographic advertisers call the kid market, taking readers on a compelling and disconcerting journey through modern childhood as envisioned by commercial interests. Children are now the focus of a marketing maelstrom, targets for everything from minivans to M&M counting books. All aspects of children's lives their health, education, creativity, and values are at risk of being compromised by their status in the marketplace.

      Interweaving real-life stories

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