«In 10 percent of
dual earner families the father and mother work two different work shifts so they can cover childcare.
In 36 per cent of
dual earner families it is the father, more than any other individual, who cares for children while the mother is at work.
Not exact matches
In
dual -
earner couples, 59 % of men report experiencing
family / work conflict, compared to 45 % of women (Galinsky et al, 2009).
Implications of shift work for parent - adolescent relationships in
dual -
earner families.
Compared with fathers who are either in
dual -
earner arrangements or are the sole
earner for the
family, stay - at - home fathers are slightly older (the average age is 41), less likely to be white and college educated.
Work -
family conflict among members of full - time
dual -
earner couples: An examination of
family life stage, gender, and age.
A naturalistic observation study of
dual -
earner families after work and school.
Critics claim the move is unfair because it will allow a
dual - income
family to earn up to # 88,000 without losing the benefit while single -
earners will be unfairly penalised.
Offer's study uses a subsample from the 500
Family Study, consisting of 402 mothers and 291 fathers in
dual -
earner families who completed a survey and a time diary that collects information about the content and context of individuals» daily experiences, as well as the emotions associated with them, in the course of a week.
Finally, the Contradictory model (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine) preserves a highly gendered division of labour but also support the
dual -
earner family.
The
Dual -
earner model (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) encourages women's continuous labour force participation and attempts to redistribute caring work within the
family.
[5] Accredited, center - based childcare for a
dual -
earner family with two young children and with earnings at 150 percent of the average full - time worker's wage would cost that
family, on average, 29 percent of their take - home pay.
«The burden of taxes falls more heavily on single -
earner families than
dual -
earner families,» says Jack Mintz, director of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who believes income splitting would be a fairer policy.
But he said reforms should also recognize that single -
earner families have some advantages that
dual earners do not, such as more unpaid time spent raising children and taking care of the home.
Having a
family of 4 is tough — as you said you have two
earners and 4 burners (
Dual - earn quad - burn!).
In 2008, only 20.7 % of
families had this traditional configuration, while 43.5 % of
families had married,
dual -
earner parents.
Early care and education is a necessity in today's society, as
families increasingly include
dual earners or a single working parent.
Over the past few decades, the dramatic increase in maternal labor force participation and
dual -
earner families has radically changed where and with whom young children spend much of their time.
But these studies relied on data from the 1980s and early 1990s, and thus represented marriages formed before the recent surge in
dual -
earner families and social approval of egalitarian gender roles.
In
dual -
earner families, fathers account for 41 percent of the total time that both parents engage with their infants.
The most recent study of
dual -
earner families reported that on a typical workday, fathers spent a little more than 1.5 hours directly engaged with their three - month - old infants.
Cultural perspective on work and
family:
Dual -
earner Israeli — Jewish and Arab
families at the transition to parenthood
Work -
family conflict among members of full - time
dual -
earner couples: An examination of
family life stage, gender, and age.