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Cat Herder 11:21 AM 07-24-2018
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics : For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Thursday, June 28, 2018

"Care of Household Children for the period 2013-17
• Adults living in households with children under age 6 spent an average of 2.1 hours per day
providing primary childcare to household children. Adults living in households where the
youngest child was between the ages of 6 and 17 spent less than half as much time providing
primary childcare to household children—50 minutes per day. Primary childcare is childcare
that is done as a main activity, such as providing physical care or reading to children. (See
table 9.)
• On an average day, among adults living in households with children under age 6, women spent
1.1 hours providing physical care (such as bathing or feeding a child) to household children; by
contrast, men spent 26 minutes providing physical care. (See table 9.)
• Adults living in households with at least one child under age 6 spent an average of 5.4 hours per
day providing secondary childcare—that is, they had at least one child in their care while doing
activities other than primary childcare. Secondary childcare provided by adults living in
households with children under age 6 was most commonly provided while doing leisure
activities (2.0 hours) or household activities (1.4 hours). (See table 10.)
• Adults living in households with children under age 6 spent more time providing primary
childcare on an average weekday (2.2 hours) than on an average weekend day (2.0 hours).
However, they spent less time providing secondary childcare on weekdays than on weekend
days—4.5 hours, compared with 7.5 hours. (See tables 9 and 10.) " - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf
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