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1) What's the age range for children, here? All, 0-18? Something else? 2) Is this per kid or per parent? That is, do you get more "points" if you have three ki
by ashark 9y ago
1) What's the age range for children, here? All, 0-18? Something else?
2) Is this per kid or per parent? That is, do you get more "points" if you have three kids and spend an hour with all three than if you spend an hour with just one of them, or does it count the same? Per kid the latter'd be lower averaged over the three, per parent it's the same. Looks like it's per-parent but I'm not entirely sure.
[EDIT] notably, if it's per-parent, this doesn't necessarily mean kids are getting as much more total time with their parents as it might seem. Mom spending an hour, then dad spending an hour separately, is 2 hours of kid-with-at-least-one-parent time, but both parents at the same time for one hour is two parent-hours of time but only one hour of time-with-at-least-one-parent for the kid.
[EDIT EDIT] of course the other metric would be vulnerable to that too, I was sloppy. Point is I'd be curious how much time-with-any-parent for each kid went up over the same period.
- pchristensen 9y agoPer #2, families are much smaller on average now so even if they count that way, I don't think that would contribute much.
- andreliem 9y agoInterested in the age range as well. Huge difference between infants, prek, k-middle school and beyond.
- ddeck 9y agoI believe this is the source for the article: Educational Gradients in Parents' Child-Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012[1] It's behind a paywall, but the PR from the UCI study states: Study findings were based on the Multinational Time Use Study Harmonized Simple Files, which focused on parents between the ages of 18 and 65 living in households with at least one child under the age of 13 [2] [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12305/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12305/full [2] https://news.uci.edu/2016/09/28/todays-parents-spend-more-time-with-their-kids-than-moms-and-dads-did-50-years-ago/ https://news.uci.edu/2016/09/28/todays-parents-spend-more-ti...