11dec2023
Time diaries indicate that married fathers spent an average 6.5 hours a week caring for their children in 2000, a 153 percent increase since 1965. Married mothers spent 12.9 hours, a 21 percent increase. Single mothers spent 11.8 hours, a 57 percent increase
Do Parents Spend Enough Time With Their Children
There are two sides of modern fertility crisis:
- economic. It's mostly connected with percentage of income that parents need to spend on their child.
- cultural. Is that there is a gap between parents’ self-evaluations and the currently high cultural expectations for “intensive parenting.”
It looks to me that the second problem is wider, deeper and more robust
Henneguya zschokkei is notable for its lack of mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, aerobic respiration and its reliance on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism.
H. zschokkei is a highly unusual multicellular animal that does not rely on the aerobic respiration of oxygen. The creature instead relies on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism. It lacks a mitochondrial genome and therefore mitochondria, making it one of the only known members of the eukaryotic animal kingdom to shun oxygen as the foundation of its metabolism.