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Time Allocations Of Children In Single-Parent Urban Utah Families To Selected Household Tasks, Susan Wilde Kingsford

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate how selected factors are related to the time children in single parent families spend in the household tasks of meal preparation; dishwashing; shopping; housecleaning; maintenance of home, yard, car and pets and nonphysical care of family members.

The data for this study were collected from 89 female headed single-parent/ two-child households in the greater metropolitan Salt Lake City Utah area. Time use data were collected for mothers and their children between the ages of 6 and 17. There were 178 children in the 89 families, of which 150 were in the specified …