As if we didn't know this already
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:37:35 GMT
Women working more—and parenting more
From an article in the San Francisco Chronicle (via the NY TImes),
Despite the surge of women into the workforce, mothers are spending at least as much time with their children as they did 40 years ago, and the amount of child care and housework performed by fathers has sharply increased, researchers say in a new study.
With more mothers in paid jobs, many policymakers have assumed that parents must have less time to interact with their children. But the researchers say the conventional wisdom is not borne out by the data they collected from families asked to account for their time. The researchers found, to their surprise, that married and single parents spent more time teaching, playing with and caring for their children than parents did 40 years ago.
Read the entire article here.
