In the home, men, on the whole had done nothing much different from what they always had done, with only minor increases in
male parenting time with children, largely in the area of recreational time.
Not exact matches
There appear to be no studies of
children brought up by two
male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that
children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the
children's behaviour through
time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian
parents» opinions.
It is recognised that
parents (
male and female) may want to take
time off from their work to spend
time with their
children.
Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than
male older siblings to be given
child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to -
parenting articles and books as well as talking
with (and spending social
time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their
children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of
child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)