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When Do Fathers Care? Mothers’ Economic Contribution and Fathers’ Involvement in Child Care
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Previous literature suggests a tenuous link between fathers' care of children and maternal employment and earnings. This study shows that the link is stronger when measures of caregiving capture fathers' increased responsibility for children. The analysis of time diary data from 6,572 married fathers and 7,376 married mothers with children under age 13 indicates that fathers (1) engage in more "solo" care of children when their wives are employed, (2) are more likely to do the kind of child care associated with responsibility for their children when their wives spend more time in the labor market, and (3) participate more in routine care when their wives contribute a greater share of the couple's earnings. In addition, the "father care" to "mother care" ratio rises when mothers contribute a greater share of household earnings.
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“At this point it is worth noting that the transition to parenthood typically involves a substantial reduction in working hours for new mothers (Paull, 2008), which can lead to increased pressure on new fathers to become the key earner, perhaps at the cost of reduced family time (Raley et al., 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Raley, S., Bianchi, S. M., & Wang, W.
- Affiliations
- McDaniel College (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Pew Research Center (US)
- ORCID
- Wang, Wendy
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1422-1459
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- PMC
- PMC4568757
- OpenAlex
- W1672615387
- Cited by
- 477
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 40.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041022)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Keywords
- father involvement in childcare, maternal employment, household earnings, gender division of labor, time diary data, child care, married couples
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