2008/09/01 by V. R. Wight, Vanessa R. Wight, S. B. Raley +3 · 212 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child care #Developmental psychology #Economics #Employment and Welfare Studies #Evening #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Labour economics #Leisure time #Medicine #Nursing #Paid work #Psychology #Social psychology #Sociology #Spouse #Work (physics) #Work hours #Work-Family Balance Challenges #Working hours
paper · doi:10.1353/sof.0.0092
published in Social Forces 87(1), 243-271 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2008/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Using data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys, this article examines nonstandard work hours and their relationship to parents' family, leisure and personal care time – informing the discussion of the costs and benefits of working nonstandard hours. The results suggest that parents who work nonstandard evening hours spend less time in some child-related activities than their counterparts who work standard daytime hours, but spend more time and more time alone with children. Married parents who work nonstandard hours spend less time with a spouse, and all parents with nonstandard hours get less sleep and watch less television than parents with standard work days.