- Author
- 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
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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.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.391425
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