The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

by Suzanne M. Bianchi, Melissa A. Milkie, John P. Robinson, et al.

Book Overview

Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise children alone. Many policy makers feared these changes would come at the expense of time mothers spend with their children. In Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, sociologists Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa Milkie analyze the way families spend their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871540932
• ISBN13: 9780871540935
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"