Staat het gezinsleven onder druk?:De samenhang tussen werkeisen van ouders en routine en interactieve activiteiten met kinderen

Summary Family life under pressure? The relation between parental work demands and routine and interactive activities with children This study examines whether the frequency of child-related activities is associated with parents’ own work demands and those of their partners. We consider job characteristics in addition to the often studied parental working hours, and differentiate between child-related routine and interactive activities. We find that working hours are consistently associated with lower frequencies of child-related activities. Fathers respond more strongly than mothers to the work demands of their partner. Whereas for fathers both their own and their partners’ work demands are more strongly related to routine than to interactive activities, mothers do not differentiate between these activities