D. Be the best mother by being yourself 4. C. Reading works 5. Mother's day gifts A. Say it with flowers B. Spend time, not money 1. Children's lives have changed. Because more women work, the domestic role of men is changing.
Men spend more time with their children than fathers of previous generations.
Bianchi's data shows that mothers spent an average of 5.6 waking hours per day with their children in 1965 and 5.8 hours in 1998. According to the 1999 Survey of Ohio's Working Families the Kunz Center conducted, employed mothers reported they were more sleep deprived, getting less than six hours of sleep per night. When it came to household chores, employed mothers reported doing 72 percent of the housework, while at-home moms reported they did 86 percent of the housework and employed fathers reported they performed only 28 percent. The Survey of Ohio's Working Families questioned 400 parents in Ohio who had children at home. Nothing has ever given me as much joy as parenting.