Relax, Moms and Dads: You’re Spending Enough Time With Your Kids

Turns out, parents today are finding more time for family than ever.

Today’s parents spend more time with their kids than moms and dads did 50 years ago.

PARENTS these days spend a lot more time with their offspring, or at least middle-class parents do. One analysis of 11 rich countries estimates that the average mother spent 54 minutes a day caring for children in 1965 but 104 minutes in 2012. Men do less than women, but far more than men in the past: their child-caring time has jumped from 16 minutes a day to 59.