Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors

Oliveira, Vítor Hugo Pereira; Martins, Paula Cristina; Carvalho, Graça Simões de

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“…This time that children spend attending classes at another location with teachers, peers, and others is also an important part of care/supervision that occurs in the community at large, outside of maternal and parental care. Although more detail on this issue is beyond the scope of this study, an important part of children's care as well as helping and teaching for children happens in education settings through non-parental roles-such as teachers, coaches, and peers (Oliveira et al, 2023). Beyond educational activities, the presence of important others is clear across children's lives.…”

Section: Results Ii: Children's Worlds Of Care Through Time With Othersmentioning

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“…First, this entails accounting for the socially connected care mothers engage in-time in mothers' communal and social activities that include their children. Time that children spend with these others, including extended family, neighbors and community members, may be related to healthy child development through deep and/or wide connections forged between children and those around them (Coleman, 1988;Oliveira et al, 2023). Understanding care as a mother's time with her children in the village of others can shift scholars' understanding from a dyadic approach toward a rich set of relations and activities that may be especially important as children grow beyond the very early life course (Fletcher et al, 2000).…”

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Beyond mothers’ time in childcare: Worlds of care and connection in the early life course

Milkie,

Wray

2023

Time & Society

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Family scholars examining time spent on children's care focus heavily on mothers’ allocations to a specific sphere of active caregiving activities . But children's needs for care and supervision involve connection to others; and many others beyond mothers can and do provide care, especially as children grow. Using a “linked lives” approach that centers relationality, we show how time diaries can illuminate children's time spent in “socially connected” care. Using recent (2014–2019) time diary data from the American and the United Kingdom Time Use Surveys, we examine mothers', children's, and teenagers' days to assess two forms of connected care time. First, results show that in addition to childcare time as traditionally measured by time use studies, mothers spend considerable further time providing connected care through social and community time in which children are included, religious activities with their children present, and mealtime with children. Second, looking from the child's perspective also underscores time in the larger “village” of carers within which children and youth are embedded. Fully two-thirds of 8–14-year-olds' and three-quarters of 15–17-year-olds’ waking time is not with mothers—it is spent alone or in social connection to fathers, extended family, teachers, neighbors, and friends. A “linked lives” approach shifts attention to assessing care time in diverse activities with others and to measuring mothers’ and children's time in social connections within the larger world. This analytic frame also moves away from maternal determinism to highlight the contours of children's care and social time occurring within the community at large, as well as the roles and responsibilities of those outside of the mother–child dyad across the child's early life course.

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Section: Results Ii: Children's Worlds Of Care Through Time With Othersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond mothers’ time in childcare: Worlds of care and connection in the early life course

Milkie,

Wray

2023

Time & Society

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Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors

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Beyond mothers’ time in childcare: Worlds of care and connection in the early life course

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