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Author
P. Gracia
Year
2012
Title
Paternal involvement and children's developmental stages in Spain
Number of pages
22
Publisher
Barcelona: Department of Political & Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Serie
DemoSoc working paper
Volume | Edition (Serie)
2012-46
Document type
Working paper
Faculty
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Institute
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
How does fathering change across children's developmental stages and how do these changes vary by educational levels and women's employment? To investigate this, I use the '2003 Spanish Time Use Survey' (N = 2,941) for a sample of heterosexual couples with children of different ages. I differentiate between physical (i.e. feeding, supervising, putting children to bed) and interactive child care activities (i.e. speaking to, playing with, teaching the child). Fathers' education strongly influences how much fathers participate in physical care in families with preschoolers, a stage in which these activities are particularly important for children's physical, social, and emotional development. For interactive care, a significant education gradient emerges when the youngest child is aged 3 to 5, when the acquisition of complex linguistic, conceptual, and social skills is critical for later school success. Mother's employment significantly influences father's physical child care with preschoolers. This suggests that empowering Spanish women to participate in the labor market promotes gender equity in the household division of child care.
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Language
English
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http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.391425

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