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To see why attitudes on having children have changed, look at...New Yorker cartoons?

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imageResearchers pored through 70,439 New Yorker cartoons. amy bernier/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

In the 1980s, sociologist Viviana Zelizer proclaimed that we were living in the age of the “priceless” child.

She noted that in the late 19th century, children were valued primarily for their economic contributions to their...

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