kids, like adults, are facing a time crunch

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…showed last 75 words of 539 total…'SOs. For girls, the figure has gone from 19 mere fact of having working parents doesn't aa end theit time, offers a detailed pottrait of there's very little evidence of that." minutes to 22 minutes. Reading at home occupies problems for children," said Andrew Cherlin eden family life. It shows that the entn,' of more In traditional families where the father works less than 1½ hours a week, no more than in 1981. sociologist at Johns Hopkins University.