Contemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult Time

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Dec 28, 2012 - Social Science - 198 pages

In 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.

 

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Contents

List of Figures
1963
Introduction
1969
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
Index

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Common terms and phrases

adult allocation amount analysis Australian average Bianchi Bittman cent Chapter child care activities child care tasks child-free Coefficients of hours cost of children countries couple families day spent division of labour domestic labour dummy variables ECLAC economic economies of scale effect equivalence scales Esping-Andersen female Feminist Feminist Economics Folbre 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 minutes a day motherhood mothers and fathers MTUS non-parental child non-parental child care non-working mothers Norway number and age number of children OECD opportunity cost paid and unpaid parenthood Predicted hours primary activity proportion Research responsibility Robinson and Godbey secondary activity Social Policy sole mothers spent by mothers Table theory threat point time-use total productive activity total workload unpaid labour vocational qualifications youngest child aged

About the author (2012)

Lyn Craig is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Bibliographic information

TitleContemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult Time
AuthorLyn Craig
Editionrevised
PublisherAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012
ISBN1409490866, 9781409490869
Length198 pages
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