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MOTHERS SPEND MORE TIME WITH KIDS THAN 40 YEARS AGO
DES MOINES REGISTER - According to a University of Maryland study,
contemporary mothers spend more time tending directly to their kids than
mothers did 40 years ago, even though more women work outside the home
today. In 1965, for example, mothers spent 10.2 hours per week focused
directly on kids (feeding them, playing with them, etc.). Now they spend
more than 14 hours a week, the study reported.
The findings are included in the book "Changing Rhythms of American
Family Life." Using time-diary data from 40 years of surveys of American
parents, researchers explored changes in how American families spend
their time. The most notable change in those years was women entering
the work force in unprecedented numbers. But that doesn't mean children
have lost time with their mothers.
Today's women sacrifice housework, free time and sleep, and they
"multitask."
They should find comfort in the findings, "but they won't," predicted
Suzanne Bianchi, the study's lead author and a native Iowan. "No matter
what, they still feel guilty."
Why? They hold themselves to high standards, and they feel nostalgia
about the past — nostalgia that isn't quite accurate, she said.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20070328/OPINION03/703280338/1035/OPINION
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MOTHERS SPEND MORE TIME WITH KIDS THAN 40 YEARS AGO
DES MOINES REGISTER - According to a University of Maryland study,
contemporary mothers spend more time tending directly to their kids than
mothers did 40 years ago, even though more women work outside the home
today. In 1965, for example, mothers spent 10.2 hours per week focused
directly on kids (feeding them, playing with them, etc.). Now they spend
more than 14 hours a week, the study reported.
The findings are included in the book "Changing Rhythms of American
Family Life." Using time-diary data from 40 years of surveys of American
parents, researchers explored changes in how American families spend
their time. The most notable change in those years was women entering
the work force in unprecedented numbers. But that doesn't mean children
have lost time with their mothers.
Today's women sacrifice housework, free time and sleep, and they
"multitask."
They should find comfort in the findings, "but they won't," predicted
Suzanne Bianchi, the study's lead author and a native Iowan. "No matter
what, they still feel guilty."
Why? They hold themselves to high standards, and they feel nostalgia
about the past — nostalgia that isn't quite accurate, she said.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20070328/OPINION03/703280338/1035/OPINION
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