2016
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-016-0474-x
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Mothering Experiences: How Single Parenthood and Employment Structure the Emotional Valence of Parenting

Abstract: Research studies and popular accounts of parenting document the joys and strains of raising children. Much of the literature comparing parents to those who do not have children indicates a happiness advantage for those without children, though recent studies unpack this general advantage to reveal differences by the dimension of well-being considered and important features in parents’ lives and parenting experiences. We use unique data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey to understand emotio… Show more

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“…However, it is important to note that activity type does not fully explain the greater stress associated with parenting girls for mothers or parenting girls or mixed-gender children for fathers: either the relationship remained marginally significant, or even when the significance disappeared altogether, the coefficient declined only slightly. Additionally, similar to prior work (McDonnell et al 2019;Meier et al 2016), we also found that contextual features of time did not explain gaps in fatigue. Specifically, in our study, we found that the greater fatigue for mothers with all girls (compared with all boys) was not explained by our contextual features of time (including activity type).…”
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confidence: 88%
“…However, it is important to note that activity type does not fully explain the greater stress associated with parenting girls for mothers or parenting girls or mixed-gender children for fathers: either the relationship remained marginally significant, or even when the significance disappeared altogether, the coefficient declined only slightly. Additionally, similar to prior work (McDonnell et al 2019;Meier et al 2016), we also found that contextual features of time did not explain gaps in fatigue. Specifically, in our study, we found that the greater fatigue for mothers with all girls (compared with all boys) was not explained by our contextual features of time (including activity type).…”
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confidence: 88%
“…Yet, employment seems to be an important mediator, since employed lone mothers seem to be happier and less stressed than those who are not employed (Meier et al 2016). Lone mothers seem to suffer from worse subjective health particularly when they have limited labour market prospects, perhaps relying on low-skill part-time employment contracts (Struffolino et al 2016) or occasional jobs (Campbell et al 2016).…”
Section: Parentingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Single mothers reported lower life satisfaction and lower health status than married mothers [6,11]. Conversely, one study reported that single mothers' life satisfaction was higher in countries with supportive family policies and higher levels of gender equality [12].…”
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confidence: 99%