I would have liked to see the distribution of one of those datasets. I suspect it would tend to be more bi-modal with a long tail - some dads spending almost no time (those who will admit it) and a significant though non-majority fraction spending much higher than the average. At least anecdotally that’s what the dads I know did…
I "liked" this because I saw someone else post these same stats earlier as though they were really striking. I rolled my eyes hard at that.
In all seriousness though-- happy Father's Day! I called my dad. He learned that seniors in St. Louis can take community college classes for free, so he's taking a class on electric motors for fun. He's a physicist. He told me that he really appreciated the other students in the class. Since they are in the trades, they are apparently very attentive to the material. He was having a lot of fun.
It's nice to hear a liberal woman talk about fatherhood stats and have something positive to say about dads for once. Thanks. It really did make me feel better after another exhausting weekend chasing after a toddler (for far longer than an hour each day).
How do you spend only an hour doing caregiving? I guess I'm not actively taking care of my kid 100% of the time when I'm with her, but for me I'm 'on duty' in the mornings and afternoons. When my child was younger I didn't do the morning shift, but would be on parent duty from 5 - 8pm every day, sometimes later if she wouldn't go to sleep. Now that she's older, I'm still technically on duty from 7-8am and ~3-8pm.
I’ve never felt that I was giving up anything for the happiness of being a father. Good thing, too, because your roundup of statistics shows what a tiny loss I could claim. (Stop press! Dads lose 25 minutes of sleep!)
I only hope my children didn’t lose too much on account of my work.
I would have liked to see the distribution of one of those datasets. I suspect it would tend to be more bi-modal with a long tail - some dads spending almost no time (those who will admit it) and a significant though non-majority fraction spending much higher than the average. At least anecdotally that’s what the dads I know did…
I wonder if there’s a useful data visualization Claude could help come up with that would demonstrate the distribution, rather than just the mean.
I "liked" this because I saw someone else post these same stats earlier as though they were really striking. I rolled my eyes hard at that.
In all seriousness though-- happy Father's Day! I called my dad. He learned that seniors in St. Louis can take community college classes for free, so he's taking a class on electric motors for fun. He's a physicist. He told me that he really appreciated the other students in the class. Since they are in the trades, they are apparently very attentive to the material. He was having a lot of fun.
I would really like to see more about that breakdown of “leisure” - an hour less of screen time but more socialization sounds interesting!
It's nice to hear a liberal woman talk about fatherhood stats and have something positive to say about dads for once. Thanks. It really did make me feel better after another exhausting weekend chasing after a toddler (for far longer than an hour each day).
How do you spend only an hour doing caregiving? I guess I'm not actively taking care of my kid 100% of the time when I'm with her, but for me I'm 'on duty' in the mornings and afternoons. When my child was younger I didn't do the morning shift, but would be on parent duty from 5 - 8pm every day, sometimes later if she wouldn't go to sleep. Now that she's older, I'm still technically on duty from 7-8am and ~3-8pm.
I’ve never felt that I was giving up anything for the happiness of being a father. Good thing, too, because your roundup of statistics shows what a tiny loss I could claim. (Stop press! Dads lose 25 minutes of sleep!)
I only hope my children didn’t lose too much on account of my work.