The Widening Education Gap in Developmental Child Care Activities in the United States, 1965-2013
The Widening Education Gap in Developmental Child Care Activities in the United States, 1965-2013
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DOI：
10.1111/jomf.12254
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
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6
通讯作者：
Altintas, Evrim
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作者：
Altintas, Evrim
过去的研究表明，近几十年来，美国人花在发展护理活动上的时间一直在增加，但人们对这种增加如何在不同教育水平的父母中分布知之甚少。出生于不同社会经济群体的儿童是否从父母那里得到了越来越平等的发展照顾，或者父母时间投资的分配是否变得越来越不平等？为了回答这个问题，作者分析了美国传统时间利用研究（1965-2013），结果显示，高学历和低学历父母在发展性儿童保育活动上的时间投入差距差距有所扩大。在母亲受教育程度低的家庭中，父亲越来越少，加剧了这一趋势。这项研究记录了美国父母在儿童保育活动中投入的时间越来越不平等。
Past research shows that time spent in developmental care activities has been increasing in the United States over recent decades, yet little is known about how this increase is distributed across parents with different levels of education. Have children born into different socioeconomic groups been receiving increasingly equal developmental care from their parents, or is the distribution of parental time investment becoming more unequal? To answer this question, the author analyzed the American Heritage Time Use Study (1965-2013) and showed that the gap between high-and low-educated parents' time investment in developmental child care activities has widened. An increasing absence of fathers in households with low-educated mothers has exacerbated the trend. This study documents growing inequality in parental time inputs in developmentally salient child care activities in the United States.