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xi Contents ABOUT THE AUTHORS xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv CHAPTER 1 Parenting: How Has It Changed? 1 CHAPTER 2 Measuring Family Time 19 CHAPTER 3 Changing Workloads: Are Parents Busier? 38 CHAPTER 4 Parental Time with Children: More or Less? 59 CHAPTER 5 Housework, Leisure, Personal Care, Relationships: “What Gives” in Busy Families? 89 CHAPTER 6 Gender Equality, Role Specialization, and “The Second Shift”: What Do Weekly Diaries Show? 113 CHAPTER 7 Feelings About Time: Parental Stress and Time Pressures 125 CHAPTER 8 Children’s Time Use: Too Busy or Not Busy Enough? By Sara Raley 142 CHAPTER 9 Multinational Patterns in Parental Time: How Unique Is the United States? 157 CHAPTER 10 Mothers’ Time, Fathers’ Time, and Gender Equal Parenting: What Do We Conclude? 169 xii Contents APPENDIX A Reliability and Validity of the Time-Diary Approach 181 APPENDIX B Additional Data Sources 185 APPENDIX C Multinational Data 190 APPENDIX D Tables 204 NOTES 223 REFERENCES 229 INDEX 241 ...

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