Abstract:Objective: This study investigates how doubling up, i.e., living with extended family members and other non-kin adults, shapes American parents’ time use, specifically childcare, housework, leisure, self-care, and sleep, paying particular attention to partnership status and race/ethnicity.Background: A growing body of work focuses on the reasons and consequences of doubling up (DU) and racial/ethnic variations in kinship support. However, we know little about how gender dynamics shape parents’ time use in thes… Show more
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