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The Time Squeeze: Parental Statuses and Feelings About Time With Children
Author(s) -
Milkie Melissa A.,
Mattingly Marybeth J.,
Nomaguchi Kei M.,
Bianchi Suzanne M.,
Robinson John P.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00050.x
Subject(s) - feeling , psychology , developmental psychology , situated , work hours , social psychology , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
Policy makers, parents, and the public are concerned with perceived declines in parents’ time with children. Data from two national surveys (N = 1,159 and N = 821) used in this study show that nearly half of parents report feeling too little time with children. Work hours are strongly related to these feelings, even controlling for time spent with children, and explain why fathers more than mothers feel time strain. For fathers, those whose youngest child is an adolescent feel more strain than similarly situated mothers. Controlling for work hours, single parents are not more likely than married parents to feel that they spend insufficient time with children.