Social Class, Gender, and Contemporary Parenting Standards in the United States: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.
Social scientists have documented a substantial increase in both mothers' and fathers' time spent with children since the 1960s in the United States. Yet parenting behaviors remain deeply divided by social class and gender, with important implications for the reproduction of inequality. To understan...
| Published in: | Social Forces Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 31 - 59 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2019
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