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Emily J Passias, Liana S Sayer, and Joanna R Pepin (2016)

Who Experiences Leisure Deficits? Mothers' Marital Status and Leisure Time

Journal of Marriage and Family, 79(4):1001-1022.

The authors used the 2003 to 2012 American Time Use Survey to examine marital status variation in mothers' leisure time. They found that never‐married mothers have more total leisure but less high‐quality leisure when compared with married mothers. Never‐married mothers' leisure is concentrated in passive and socially isolated activities that offer fewer social and health benefits. Black single mothers have the highest amount of socially isolated leisure, particularly watching television alone. Results suggest that differences in the context and type of leisure are salient dimensions of the divergent and stratified life conditions of married, divorced, and single mothers.

Social and Economic Inequality, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Family formation, Gender, Sayer, Marriage, Mothers
Black mothers, Single mothers, Divorce, Mother, Marriage
First published: September 29, 2016

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