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Interesting article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/upshot/stressed-tired-rushed-a-portrait-of-the-modern-family.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=0
Here's a great summary of it, from Dave Pell's excellent daily newsletter: Next Draft: ""You basically just always feel like you're doing a horrible job at everything." In the NYT Upshot, Claire Cain Miller provides a portrait of the modern family: Stressed, Tired, Rushed. Whether it's just a feeling or a harsh reality, this generation of parents seems a whole lot busier than their predecessors. Why? It's more common for both parents to work. Parents seem, for better or worse, a little more involved in their children's lives"
From the article:
In most cases, that means women still do the majority of the child care and housework - particularly managing the mental checklists of children’s schedules and needs - even when both parents work full time, according to the Pew survey and other research. Just don’t tell fathers that. They are much more likely than mothers to say they share responsibilities equally.
Here's a great summary of it, from Dave Pell's excellent daily newsletter: Next Draft: ""You basically just always feel like you're doing a horrible job at everything." In the NYT Upshot, Claire Cain Miller provides a portrait of the modern family: Stressed, Tired, Rushed. Whether it's just a feeling or a harsh reality, this generation of parents seems a whole lot busier than their predecessors. Why? It's more common for both parents to work. Parents seem, for better or worse, a little more involved in their children's lives"
From the article:
In most cases, that means women still do the majority of the child care and housework - particularly managing the mental checklists of children’s schedules and needs - even when both parents work full time, according to the Pew survey and other research. Just don’t tell fathers that. They are much more likely than mothers to say they share responsibilities equally.