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Linn, Susan. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood. 2004. The New Press, New York, USA and London, UK.
If I had small children, I would want to take them and run for the bush and homestead in the wilderness after reading this terrifying tale of the destruction of our first humanity - childhood. Billions of dollars are being spent to sell everything to children. Linn'concern is that, "The explosion of marketing aimed at kids today is precisely targeted, refined by scientific method and honed by child psychologists..."
The author is a parent, a citizen activist and a lecturer in psychiatry. She researched this subject with passion and professionalism Read more [...]
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