Are Parents Investing Less in Children? Trends in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Time with Children1

By Liana C. Sayer, S. Bianchi, John P. Robinson. American Journal of Sociology, 2004

960 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6c00dde08164e5732f566b5bab37333a45c92f28

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

In Gender Studies

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

How Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare (2007, background): “Employed mothers make compositional changes in their time with children (Bittman et al., 2004; Sandberg & Hofferth, 2001), and preserve their time with children over the longer term (Cohen & Bianchi, 1999; Sayer et al., 2004 ).”
Gender Differences in Providing Urgent Childcare among Dual-earner Parents (2008, background): “After three decades of research on household labor, scholars generally draw on three overlapping perspectives to predict when men do more around the house, including caring for children (for reviews, see Bianchi et al. 2000; Coltrane 2000; Sayer et al. 2004).”
How Parents Fare (2016, methodology): “Studies on time with children tend to focus on childcare activities like routine care, play, teaching, and management (e.g., Kalil et al. 2012; Sayer et al. 2004) or activities that involve direct engagement with children (Bianchi 2000; Bianchi and Robinson 1997).”
Measuring trends in leisure (2007, positive): “For example, see Bianchi [2000], who finds that, relative to earlier periods, mothers’ time with children was stable into the 1990s, and Sayer et al. [2004], who find that, relative to earlier periods, time spent on child care increased into the 1990s.”
Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries (2011, result): “This latter result suggests that, in Spain, the time spent on childcare is quite inelastic to changes in the hours of paid work, which is in line with the observations from a number of EU countries in Bianchi ( 2000 ); Hallberg and Klevmarken ( 2003 ); Sayer, Bianchi, and Robinson ( 2004 ); Bianchi ”
Cross-national Variation in the Influence of Employment Hours on Child Care Time (2012, background): “Studies provide strong support for the time availability perspective but also indicate the inverse association between employment hours and household work is typically stronger for women than for men (Sayer et al. 2004).”