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Re:Parents now spend twice as much time with their children ... by gajomi on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:20PM (#15800461)
This seems improbable. Of course it depends a bit on the number of hours required to effectively helicopter parent, but the data for USA mothers indicates something like a 100% increase in time spent since 1965 resulting in two total hours a day, which seems far to little for any kind of omnipresence (similar results for fathers). Of course, these numbers are "on average" so you might argue that there are helicopter parenting subpopulations contributing to this increase, but this data can't provide evidence for or against that. The data in Denmark (where there really has been an orders of magnitude increase) and in France (with the decrease) seems like interesting places to look into. It could be that systematic reporting biases have a significant role to play in these results.
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Re:Parents now spend twice as much time with their children ... by watwut on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:35PM (#15800623)
How do you count when stay at home mom (norm in middle class 50ties) does housework or reads/solves crossword while the kid is playing around and she is answering those "look what I done" requests? It is both speding time with kid and not spending time with kid.
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Re:Parents now spend twice as much time with their children ... by gajomi on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:48PM (#15800738)
This is a very good question and would seemingly be implicated in a critical view of the reporting methodology. I have been impressed with the work the NYT data team shows on their github (or whatever). It looks like the economist has an account: https://github.com/economist-data-team but in a few minutes searching around couldn't find any links to data sources. There was a footer mentioning that you could read more on the marriage special report, but I encountered a paywall :)
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Re:Parents now spend twice as much time with their children ... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:36PM (#15800628)
You don't need to spend time with someone to micromanage them.
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Re:Parents now spend twice as much time with their children ... by goialoq on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:13AM (#15804740)
Then micromanaging is not related to the OP research about spending time with them.
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