The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

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241 Index adultification, 8 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 27, 224n7 American Time Use Survey, 174, 223n1 Australia. See multinational comparisons Barnett, Rosalind, 39 Bellas, Marcia, 39 Bianchi, Suzanne, 15, 189, 196, 202 Bittman, Michael, 53, 100–101, 157, 174 Blackwell, Roger D., 223n2 Blair-Loy, Mary, 9–10, 12–14 Boy Scouts of America, 143 Brennan, Robert, 39 Bryant, W. Keith, 64–65, 78 Budig, Michelle, 11, 73 Burton, Linda, 8 busy families, adjustments made by, 89, 111–12, 172; in Canada, 197–98; classification of activities, 214–15; employed and nonemployed mothers, differences in activities of, 108; employed and nonemployed mothers, differences in civic and family activities of, 110; employed and nonemployed mothers, understanding changes made by, 107–10; family care and housework, changes in, 91–95, 165–67 (see also family care and housework); in France, 202; free time activities, changes in, 95–98, 164–67 (see also leisure); free time activities, quality of, 100–103; multitasking, 68, 70–71, 98–100; in the Netherlands, 194–96; personal care and sleep, changes in, 95–96, 165–66 (see also personal care (including sleep)); primary activities, changes in, 89–98, 164–67; time with others, changes in, 103–7; in the United Kingdom, 191–92 Canada: parenting and child care, trends in, 196–200. See also multinational comparisons Caplow, Theodore, 91 Casper, Lynne, 196 Chase, D. R., 223n2 Chenu, Alain, 174 childbearing, timing of, 4, 60, 87 child care. See parental time with children childlessness, 4, 9–10, 60 children: anxiety of parents regarding activities of, 87; child-centeredness, ideal of, 126–27; childhood, changing ideas regarding, 7–9; diary activities of, 143–48; diary time, hours per week, 145; differences in time use by family structure, hours per week, 151; differences in time use by maternal employment hours per week, 150; educated parents and, 5; educational activities of, 147–48; family, time spent with, Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. 242 Index 153–54; feelings about their parents’ time use, 154–55; feelings about their time use, 154; free time, two views of use of by, 142–43; free time, use of by, 144–47; paid work, housework, and child care, 148; parental changes made to allow increased time with (see busy families , adjustments made by); parental time interacting with (see parental time with children); parents’ and children’s time, correlations between, 152–53; parents’ and children ’s time use, correlations between, 174; reading, 147; television viewing and media use by, 146–47; time use, association with mothers’ employment status, 149–50; time use, association with two-parent vs. single mother families , 149, 151–52; time-use trends of, 155–56, 173–74; two-parent vs. single mother families, inequalities resulting from, 180 Child Study Association of America, 143 Christensen, Kathleen, 224n7 class, socioeconomic. See socioeconomic class Coleman, James, 3 Coleman, Mary, 39 Coletti, Joseph, 146 correlations of mothers’ and fathers’ time, in selected activities, 118–23, 123; paid work hours with time in other activities, 122; and children’s time, 152–53; and children’s time use, 174; weekly time in activities, 120 Council of Economic Advisers, 59, 86 CPS. See Current Population Survey Crittenden, Ann, 11 Crouter, Ann, 60 Current Population Survey (CPS): as data source, 27, 187–88; earlier time diary surveys, comparisons to, 185–86; employment data, 19–20, 33, 38, 40–52, 170–71; response rates of compared to time diaries, 184; Sloan weekly diary study, comparison with, 219 Curtin, Richard, 32 data sources: earlier time-diary studies , 28–29, 185–87; surveys, 187–90 (see also Current Population Survey; Panel Study of Income Dynamics—Child Development Supplement, 2002) diary, time. See time diaries domesticity, ideology of, 10–11 education: children’s activities associated with, 147–48; delayed childbearing and, 4, 60; employment rates of parents by, 51–53; parental time with children and, 73–75, 161–63; parenting and, 4–5, 60; women in college, 9. See also socioeconomic class Electric Power Research Institute, 187 employment: birth of children, changes in response to, 45–48; changes in the amount of hours per week devoted to, 89–91, 165–67; as core of good parenting for men, 11–13; joint labor market hours in families with children under age eighteen, 207–8; joint labor market status in two-parent families with children, 206; labor force status of parents with children under age eighteen, 205; maternal (see maternal employment); parental time with children and, 74, 76–78, 83–85, 161–62...