The time squeeze: Parental statuses and feelings about time with children

By Melissa A. Milkie, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Kei Nomaguchi, S. Bianchi, John P. Robinson. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cross-national Variation in the Influence of Employment Hours on Child Care Time (2012, background): “Many parents feel they spend too little time with their children and these perceptions are particularly strong among mothers and fathers with long work hours (Milkie et al., 2004).”
How Parents Fare (2016, background): “2008; Tweng, Campbell, and Foster 2003), and conflict in managing work and family (Craig 2007; Kimmel and Connelly 2007; Milkie et al. 2004; Sayer 2005).”
Time Strains and Psychological Well-Being (2005, background): “Recent academic literature and the popular press have suggested that time strains for family and personal life have become a major issue for dual-earner parents (e.g., Hochschild, 1997; Milkie et al., 2004).”
Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents Matter (2015, background): “…Robinson, & Milkie, 2006; L. Fox, Han, & Waldfogel, 2013; Moro-Egido, 2012), pressure to spend time with children makes many mothers feel strained (Milkie et al., 2004; Snyder, 2007), leading to negative consequences for mothers’ general well-being (B. Fox, 2009; Nomaguchi, Milkie, & Bianchi,…”
Limited Access: Disparities in Flexible Work Schedules and Work-at-home (2008, background): “The slightly lower access to schedule flexibility when children are older may, in part, explain why married parents of adolescents, particularly fathers, feel strained by lack of time with their children ( Milkie et al. 2004 ).”
Family Relations and the Internet: Exploring a Family Boundaries Approach (2006, background): “Family time tends to differ between weekends and weekdays, as parents who work on weekdays may spend less time with their children and try to catch up with them during weekends by spending time with them in social and leisure activities ( Milkie, Mattingly, Nomaguchi, Bianchi, & Robinson, 2004; Yeu”
Does Father Care Mean Fathers Share? (2006, background): “Research finds that both men and women express strongly egalitarian attitudes toward parenting (Bittman and Pixley 1997; Casper and Bianchi 2002; Gerson 2002) and that men say they want to spend more time with their children (Milkie et al. 2004; Russell 1999).”
A Review of the Literature on the Social and Economic Determinants of Parental Time (2008, background): “There has been an increasing interest in the study of the time use of families and children in the literature in recent years (Folbre et al. 2005; Gauthier et al. 2004; Hallberg and Klevmarken 2003; Milkie et al. 2004; Sayer et al. 2004).”
Fathering in Australia Among Couple Families with Young Children (2011, unknown): “Men often express a desire to spend more time with children (Hand & Lewis 2002; Milkie et al. 2004; Russell et al. 1999), and the expressed preference of many fathers working longer hours to work fewer hours (Baxter 2008) no doubt in part reflects a desire to have more time for their family.”
Fathers' caregiving and breadwinning: A gender congruence analysis. (2006, background): “Although a few studies have documented a negative association between fathers’ work hours and caregiving behaviors (Ishii-Kuntz et al., 2004; Milkie et al., 2004), the overall conclusion in the literature on the subject is that fathers’ work hours are not consistently related to caregiving behaviors”
Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Segregation in Occupations (2013, background): “Certainly, as the ideal of “good fathers” evolves, contemporary fathers express increasing interests in spending more time with their children (Milkie et al. 2004).”
Parental Leisure Time: A Gender Comparison in Five Countries (2013, background): “Moreover, there are growing expectations that parents and children should have high-quality, mutually enjoyable, sociable relationships, and leisure time with children is now regarded as an important aspect of parenting (Daly 2001; Milkie et al. 2004).”
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns (2011, background): “Fathers are also more likely than mothers to complain about not spending enough time with their family (see also Bianchi and Wight 2010; Milkie et al. 2004; Roxburgh 2006).”