Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens' friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home.

No single choice about how to organize work and family life is right or possible - for every family. And every choice has tradeoffs.

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