Your Anxious Child
Your Anxious Child
Edward Plimpton
Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting: Interview with Nina Bandelj
50 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2026 at 7:22 pm.
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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