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This traditional work day length creates challenges in dealing with family problems and conflicting schedules
What is 8 hours?
The types of time that parents spend with their children.
What are primary, secondary, and passive?
Age of women that make up more than 3/4 of out-of-wedlock births.
What is 20 and older?
There has been an increased rate of couples choosing this "unnatural" option.
What is to remain childless?
The idea that more children means higher chance of one child to have special talents or abilities.
What is lottery logic?
The percent of industrialized countries that offer paid maternity leave
What is (about) 80%?
This type of time increases when a mother is more educated
What is primary time?
The fundamental difference between children in one-parent households vs. two-parent households
What are economic resources?
This rate continues to fluctuate both inside and outside of racial-ethic categories
What is fertility?
The group most heavily participating in the unfortunate trend of "no-parent households"
Who are African Americans?
This occurs for 75% of women by their child's ninth month
What is a return to work?
Leaving children in child care (such as preschool) tends to leave working parents with this feeling
What is guilt?
Differences in healthcare, housing, and quality of schools as well as a greater probability of low self esteem and hopelessness are examples of...
What are difficulties of living in poverty for single mothers?
This group typically has the highest fertility rates, but research has shown that this is decreasing with a preference for smaller families.
Who are Latinos/Latinas/Latinx?
This race children has increased more than 400% in the past 30 years.
What is "mixed-race"?
The rapid rise of mothers in the labor force has had this general effect on time spent with children
What is none/has remained stable?
Ratio of children under age 5 who receive care from someone other than a parent regularly
What is (more than) 2/3?
The cause for many behavioral social costs associated with single motherhood
Despite about 130,000 children being adopted in the US, this system holds more than 700,000 children who often leave with extreme vulnerabilities.
What is foster care?
The burden that women of color who face the same economic issues as white women also experience
What is institutionalized racism?
This percent of workers are left uncovered by the FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act), passed in 1993
What is 40%?
Compared to married mothers, this is the amount of time that single mothers spend with their children.
What is 90% of the amount spent by married mothers?
The reason for detrimental effects to a child's development in single-parent homes (hint: 85%)
What is male absence (or male income)?
Factors include higher age for first marriage and the likelihood of educated women interested starting their career
What is postponed child birth?
The term used to describe the family structure where a parent moves in with their adult child and there are grandchildren present.
What is the sandwich generation?