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The Parenting Pressure-Cooker

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Instead of increasingly outsourcing child-rearing, parents are devoting more of the scarce time left outside working hours to their children. Over the last two decades, time spent by parents on child-rearing has jumped. ... and the rise in hours spent with children has been greatest among better-educated, higher-earning parents. ...

The trend toward spending more time with one’s offspring is especially strange given that better-educated, better-paid

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