Contemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult TimeIn this timely book Lyn Craig provides the first comprehensive account of how parents divide their time between caring for children, housework, paid work and leisure. Using large-scale quantitative time-use data , the book provides a detailed analysis of the impact of children upon adult time. This research reveals a unique picture of how parenthood affects daily life within households, and how people’s (paid and unpaid) workload is affected by parenthood. By looking at how the costs and benefits of children are currently conceptualized and apportioned, Contemporary Motherhood shows what becoming a mother entails and why it is so challenging to raise children. Suggesting an explanation for why fertility rates are dramatically dropping, the book makes a significant contribution to the debate on contemporary motherhood and will interest scholars and students in sociology and social policy with an interest in the sociology of the family, gender and sexuality, and the sociology of youth. |
Contents
Approach Data and Method | |
The Time Penalty of Parenthood | |
Gender Equivalence or Hidden Inequity? | |
Protecting Parental Time with Kids? | |
Earning Capacity versus Caring Capacity | |
Crossnational Comparison of the Impact of Children on Adult | |
Conclusion | |
References | |
Appendix | |
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adult allocation amount analysis Australian average behaviour Bianchi Bittman cent Chapter child care activities child care tasks childfree Coefficients of hours cost of children countries couple families coupleheaded households day spent division of labour domestic labour dummy variables ECLAC economic economies of scale effect equivalence scales female Feminist Feminist Economics Folbre fulltime gender equity Gershuny higher hours a day household level households in child housework human capital impact of children increase interactive Labour Economics leisure less male Marriage maternal men’s minutes a day motherhood mothers and fathers MTUS non nonparental care nonparental child nonparental child care nonworking mothers Norway number of children OECD opportunity cost paid and unpaid parenthood partners Predicted hours primary activity proportion Research responsibility Robinson and Godbey Social Policy sole mothers spent by mothers Table theory threat point timeuse total productive activity total workload unpaid labour youngest child aged