The La Caixa study service has published the results of a time-use survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics in 2002 that states that parents with university studies devote more time to the care and education of their children.
This greater time of dedication is reflected with greater emphasis on the so-called “quality” time, that is, in the realization with their children of educational activities such as reading, help with homework, etc., although they also reflect greater involvement of these parents in basic care education such as food or hygiene.
Statistics show that parents with high levels of training who work as well as those not employed are involved, but let's see the numbers, they are surprising. “Mothers with a high education and working outside the home dedicate a total of 76.6 minutes a day to the care of their children, compared with 46.23 of women with training considered low (those without university studies) and They also work.
Of these 76.6 minutes per day, 59.63 are dedicated to basic care and 16.97 to 'quality' care, a figure that doubles the 8.3 minutes invested in these activities by low-training mothers who invest 37 , 9 to your basic care.
Among the group of unoccupied women, those of high education dedicate 96.18 minutes to the care of their children, of which 75.1 minutes are for basic care and 21 for 'quality' time.
Mothers without a university education who do not work outside the home spent 62.57 minutes in caring for their children, 51.5 of them for basic care and 11 minutes for 'quality'.
The data also reveals that working mothers with high education spend more time with their children than those who are not busy with low education (76 minutes versus 62 minutes). ”
In the case of parents, there is a greater tendency for dedication if they have studies, but the time dedicated to children is still less.
Honestly, what surprises us about this study is the little time that parents spend on their children, whether they have a career or not. In none of the cases do they spend two hours a day, so why do they have children? What do mothers and unoccupied fathers do? Agree that the current pace of life is very stressful, but in terms of education and dedication to our children, we must set priorities.
The other conclusion is obvious, although the data do not deserve too much confidence, not by the source, but by ignorance of the breadth of the study.
