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Title: Who Experiences Leisure Deficits? Mothers Marital Status and Leisure Time

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: We use the 2003-2012 American Time Use Survey to examine how mothers leisure varies by marital status. We find that never-married mothers have more total leisure time than married mothers, but the quality of leisure is poorer. The majority of never married mothers leisure time is passive and socially isolatedactivities with few social, health, or cognitive benefits. We also find that race-ethnicity moderates the effect of relationship status on time spent in social and active leisure. Unpartnered and black mothers spend the most time in socially isolated leisure, such as time spent alone watching television. Our results strongly suggest that types of leisure differentiate mothers experience of time in ways related to other dimensions of inequality, such as economic, health, and social capital disparities.

Url: http://www.timeuselab.umd.edu/uploads/1/8/7/9/18797564/mom_leisure_--_draft.pdf

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Authors: Passias, Emily; Sayer, Liana C; Pepin, Joanna R

Publisher: Ohio State University

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Other

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