From USA TODAY:
Dads who have kids at home work more — not less — than men who don’t, according to a new report about men’s increasing work-family conflict.
These fathers work, on average, 47 hours a week, compared with 44 for men who either don’t have children or don’t live with them, or whose kids are older than 18. And 42% of the dads with kids under 18 at home work an average 50 or more hours a week; only 33% of the other men work such hours.
“Men are working longer to bring in more money for their families,” says Ellen Galinsky, president of the non-profit Families and Work Institute, which produced the report. “In open-ended questions … their answers were about earning more money. I think the breadwinner image is a part of it, particularly for men with children.”
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