Mothers today spend more time with their kids
"For married mothers, the time spent on child care activities increased to an average of 12.9 hours a week in 2000, from 10.6 hours in 1965. For married fathers, the time spent on child care more than doubled, to 6.5 hours a week, from 2.6 hours. Single mothers reported spending 11.8 hours a week on child care, up from 7.5 hours in 1965."
The news reports I've read seem to treat this trend as uniformly positive. The underlying message: Hooray, working mothers are NOT neglecting their kids!
While I'm glad to have a study that combats the criticism of working mothers, I wonder if all this attention we're lavishing on our kids is so positive. What are we giving up in exchange? The study reports women are spending less time on housework. Well, no big loss there. But my guess is we're also giving up adult time- time alone with our friends, ourselves, and our spouses. And that can't be good for the parents...or the kids.
Stumble It!
posted by pam at 2:35 PM
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We are definately giving up time with adults. But I know it's a willing sacrifice. If we have both been away all day, we miss the kids and want to spend time with them. We try and hang out- even if it's just watching tv together or chatting before bed- together after the kids go to bed. But the kids are small for such a sort time- it's precious to us.
Yes, but what happens when the kids become teens and start to have social lives of their own? Also, there is an interesting new book, Generation Me, in which the author looks at this younger generation and finds that they are more like to be depressed and anxious because they have been so dependent on their parents. I interviewed the author in this month's Child mag (story not online yet), but you can probably find out more info about the book from author's web site, Jean Twenge.
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