Abstract:Using a data set of employed parents in the United States, the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce, this paper examines work characteristics, the amount of time parents spend with their children, and how parents evaluate themselves in their parenting role (their "self-evaluations as parents"). The results indicate that although work hours correlate with time spent with children, they do not correlate with parents' self-evaluations. Autonomy is critical to both parenting outcomes, even after controlli… Show more
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