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{"title":"Introduction to Time and Families","authors":"Martin A. Covey","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0013.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0013.101","url":null,"abstract":"In the preface to his book, Families & Time, Daly (2001) reflected on his work with young fathers and their children. From his research, he observed that these fathers often lamented about the scarcity of time with their children, wondering how they could spend more time with their children, and how they could manage to make more time for their children. He states, \"Time appeared as a dominant currency in their experience of family: It was the measure of value in their relationship with their children\" (Italics inserted).From this foundational statement, Daly explores the issue of time, analyzing the \"conceptual meanings of time for families\" (2001, p. xii). He continues to investigate the complexities of time as viewed by different generations, even within the same family, His analysis brings to light the observation that there is \"a set of underlying structural constraints that may be operating\" (p. 293) when it comes to family time. Family time becomes problematic when the disparate views of family time are not recognized and accommodated from both research perspective and from the perspective of individual families. Later in the book, Daly observes that \"when the discordant nature of family time is seen as a contradiction, it shifts attention from seeing family time as a personal trouble that requires a private solution, to a pervasive systemic dilemma that challenges all families in some way\" (Daly, 2001, p. 293). It would seem then that interventions for families designed to assist in the difficult task of time management would necessarily take place in both the micro and macro levels.A macro system approach for the family professional would be working to modify the \"pervasive systemic dilemmas\" (Daly, 2001, p. 293) that exacerbate the negative feelings ubiquitously experienced by families. He explains,The dominant cultural response is for parents to at least think about working less, even though few seem to be able to follow through on this. However, if parents are unable to change the nature of their demands in order to come closer to the ideal, then it leads one to question whether the ideals themselves need to be opened to reexamination. These are questions at a cultural and ideological level that open to question the dominant discourse of family time. (pp. 293-294)One such \"ideal\" can be described as the \"hurried child\" syndrome. The syndrome results when parents over-schedule their children with too many activities, in the well meaning attempt to provide opportunities to enhance their development (Lamanna & Riedmann, 2009, p. 280). Not only do the over-scheduled children suffer the stress of a schedule that is too hectic, the parents become harried as well from the subsequent stress of the overlap of their hectic work environments and the necessity of keeping up with their children's busy schedules.The resulting time strain is an example of a systemic dilemma that communicates to parents that to be good parents, their children be acti","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"116 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77357306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wrinkles in Parental Time with Children: Work, Family Structure, and Gender","authors":"Ronald E. Bulanda, Stephen Lippmann","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0013.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0013.102","url":null,"abstract":"The two key resources parents provide for their children are money and time (Thomson, Hanson, & McLanahan, 1994). Yet parental efforts to earn and provide money for their children inevitably require time committed to paid labor. These time commitments to paid labor have the potential to directly take time away from one's family, including spouses and children, and often have the tendency to intrude upon the quality of time spent in the family arena. In a similar manner, one's time committed to paid labor may result in a significant reallocation of time in bdomestic activities for oneself and other family members. In addition, feelings of overwork or stress from paid work have the potential to intrude on the time one does spend with family members. Taken together, it is clear that one's participation in the paid labor force has tremendous implications for the amount, allocation, and quality of time spent in the family arena.One of the most drastic societal changes over the past few decades has been the increase in women's employment, particularly among mothers. This increase in women's paid labor has elicited much public and academic concern regarding how the employment of mothers affects children (Casper & Bianchi, 2002). Although a worthwhile concern, it is important to acknowledge the full range of potential impact parental employment, especially of mothers, has on parents' time with children. This includes greater attention to how the amount of mothers' and fathers' time with children is influenced, how work schedules influence time allocation, and how parents' feelings about their time commitments may have consequences for the time they do spend in the family arena. In addition, appropriate assessments of parental employment as it relates to time must also make important acknowledgments about family structure, the changing nature of work and work scheduling, and gender. Indeed, maternal employment is likely to have different implications for single mothers than for married mothers; just as emerging workplace technologies and policies may influence a successful balance of work and family time commitments. Moreover, parents' feelings of achieving a successful balance of work and family time are undoubtedly influenced by the gendered nature of work and family roles. Assessments of all of these factors make important contributions to our understanding of how parents' participation in the paid labor force has ripple effects on time allocation and quality within the family, and point to many future directions for future research.Our goal is to review the literature on families and time. First, we review the literature which assesses how parents, according to labor force status, allocate their time. Next, we review how work schedules, rather than work hours, influence time with children. Next, we review how the demands of work and family make mothers and fathers feel about time, especially that which they spend with their children. We conclude with ","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78538005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Miles That Bind: Commuter Marriage and Family Strengths","authors":"Richard Glotzer, Anne Cairns Federlein","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.102","url":null,"abstract":"Commuter marriages are characterized by one spouse being resident in the family home, often with work and child-care responsibilities, while the other spouse works and lives away from home for extended periods. This arrangement of family life poses unique challenges for families drawn to the potential benefits of commuting. Commuter marriage entails enormous sacrifices and emotional costs and is not for most families. Still, it may work for others.Long distance commuter marriages are growing in number. Organizing marital and family life around the absence of a spouse is becoming a more familiar part of America's social landscape, making this an opportune time to familiarize readers with the literature in this area, while offering two examples of how commuting has worked for the authors' families. The literature on commuter marriage remains fairly thin, despite strong beginnings twenty years ago. Much relevant data draws from the area of Work and Families and from the corporate world.There are differing motivations for commuting. Commuters having a short or limited time-line for commuting may accept it as part of their occupation, or feel that enduring the short term stress and disruption of commuting may bring long term benefits. These benefits include possible advancement, acquiring new skills, recognition as a loyal \"team player\", or even the attractiveness of a temporary change in routine or locale. Receiving emotional support and encouragement from friends, family or colleagues, with office work, child care, and home maintenance are also easier to come by when the need is of limited duration. This regimen of commuting is easier to explain to children and negotiate with one's spouse.Long term commuters may be motivated by other factors. Wanting to stay in one's occupation or profession when work is not readily available is a strong motivator, particularly when work is unavailable locally or available employment involves a lower salary. Leveraging commuting into quality of life issue may be another motivator. For example, commuters working in New York or Boston during the week but live in Up-State New York, Western Massachusetts or rural New England, often stress quality of life issues for their families, noting that their purchasing power is increased by their residential choices. Family relationships surely suffer the emotional and logistical dislocations of long distance commuting yet the commuting spouse remains in a readily accessible regional orbit.Longer distance open-ended commutes are most difficult. Visits home for the commuting spouse take longer, entail more expense, and are of shorter frequency and duration. These types of commuter marriages are hardest on the emotional bonds, routines and intimacy of couples. Such commutes are also hardest on children, pressing one parent into a \"super parent role\" while the other parent struggles to make their parenting real to their children. Commuters in this category, like regional commuters, ","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"2012 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73784455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Work and Families","authors":"Martin A. Covey","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.101","url":null,"abstract":"History can speak to us in the present by illuminating not only what has transpired in the past, but also how those events have shaped the present. History can provide feedback which not only affects how individuals interpret their present circumstances but also how they perceive possibilities for the future. The fact that families are undergoing change stands without debate. Understanding the changes in the ways American families relate to and with the world of work may shed light on present adaptational challenges that impact their sustainability.The Industrial Revolution brought change in the socioeconomics of western cultures. These changes, in turn, influenced families. Three major aspects of the industrial revolution have been cited by scholars of family history as having great influence on family life (Coontz, 1992; Hunt & Hunt, 1987; Lasch, 1983; Demos, 1986). First, the rise of market capitalism influenced which families had the opportunity to make money. Second, consumerism, that is, the desire/ability to attain to a higher standard of living, changed families' motivation for earning money. Third, production work, described as family income produced by family members laboring at occupations outside the home or family business, changed the process through which a family earned money. The aspects of family life that were affected by these socioeconomic changes can be observed to fall broadly into four areas: 1) courtship and affection, 2) parenting views and behaviors, 3) family network and support affiliations, and 4) population movements.For example, courtship/affection in families refers to the reasons marriage is contracted and the expectations of marital partners (Degler, 1983; Shorter, 1977). Couples in agrarian society courted and married for the purposes of survival (Olson & Leonard, 1990). If the needs of the family were met, the marriage was considered successful. The emotional energy that once was utilized for survival could now be directed toward relationship quality. Therefore, the basis for marriage changed from a survival or economic model to a companionship model. In keeping with this change, practices changed from \"courting\" to \"dating\" as a way to find a partner for marriage.The aspects of parenting affected by market capitalism, consumerism, and production work were predominantly the ways in which children were reared and the influence of the mother-child bond (Degler, 1983; Shorter, 1977). Prior to the industrial revolution, family survival was paramount, and resources were invested almost exclusively to ensure survival. Consequently, the mother/child relationship was not the preeminent consideration. The task of rearing children was augmented with older siblings, relatives, and other members of the larger community serving as caregivers. Later, the mother/child relationship gained predominance as childrearing began to be viewed as providing meaning and emotional fulfillment, and the larger community had a less signifi","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79858543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Occupation, Hours Worked, Caregiving, and Leisure Time Physical Activity","authors":"S. Kuiack, H. Irving, G. Faulkner","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.103","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies have found that caregivers tend to neglect their own health care needs (Acton, 2001; Castro, King, Bacak, Housemann, Gardiner, & Brownson, 2003; Janevic & Connell, 2001). This neglect comes in many forms, but one of considerable interest is neglect of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and exercise. Caregivers who do not exercise regularly miss out on many well documented benefits of regular physical exercise including improved overall health, decreases in blood pressure, improvements in lipid profile, weight control, helps in diabetes control, reduction of stress, promotion of relaxation, as well as a number of positive psychological effects.It is essential that caregivers make time to provide care for themselves, including sufficient LTPA. The entire experience of caregiving can be undermined when the caregiver does not take sufficient care of themselves. Compromised caregiver health has been linked to potentially harmful behaviors by caregivers, including screaming, yelling, insulting, swearing, threatening to send to a nursing home and withholding food (Beach, Schulz, Williamson, Miller, Weiner, & Lance, 2005). Karlin (2004) concluded that lack of LTPA or exercise during care-giving periods predicted higher levels of caregiver burden. Alternatively, Rabinowitz, Cardenas, Mausback, Gray and Ambler (2003) found that overall burden was predictive of poor health behaviors for caregivers. Exercise programs directed to caregivers have shown success in reducing sense of caregiver burden (Boise, Congleton & Schmall, 2000; Castro, Wilcox, O'Sullivan, Baumann, & King, 2002).The exploration of the barriers to regular LTPA for caregivers has revealed regional variation (Wilcox, Castro, King, Housemann, & Brownson, 2006) in that rural caregivers are more sedentary than their urban counterparts. Rural women cited care-giving duties as their top barrier to LTPA as compared to lack of time for the urban women. Variation has also been reported due to ethnicity, age, and education level (King, Castro, Wilcox, Eyler, Sallis, & Brownson, 2006). For all ethnic subgroups, care-giving duties ranked among the top four most frequently reported barriers to LTPA. The exploration of why some caregivers cannot engage in regular LTPA has incorporated the fact that caregiving and LTPA may be mediated by other factors. Caregivers often have multiple competing demands for their time including providing care to their own children as well as employment (Burton & Turrell, 2000).Occupational Status and LTPAOccupational status has an important bearing on LTPA pursuits. Studies have demonstrated that blue collar employees report lower levels of LTPA (Niknian, Linnan, Lasater, & Carleton, 1991; Oldridge, 1992). As a direct result, demographic studies have shown that blue collar employees experience higher mortality and morbidity rates (Bennett, 1996). A study by Burton and Turrell (2000) investigated the relationship between occupation, hours worked and LTPA. The au","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74471746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working but Poor: Perspectives from a Rural, African American Family","authors":"Pearl E. Stewart","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0012.104","url":null,"abstract":"IntroductionWhile much attention has been focused on moving families beyond welfare, little attention has been given to the destination of many of those families. Research indicates that far from achieving self sufficiency, many join the ranks of the working poor. This group has been an omnipresent but invisible part of the American workforce. This lack of visibility has been based on the assumption that working poverty was a temporary situation (Shulman, 2004) which will be rectified as the worker gains in experience and seniority. For many workers this was not the case, since a variety of structural and individual factors prevent such advancement. This was particularly true with respect to rural areas where infrastructural and employment issues can thwart all but the most thoughtful intervention attempts.Who are the Working Poor?While various definitions have been used to classify the working poor, their numbers, by any definition are surprising. In 2003, 20% of the nation's poor were individuals who worked for at least 27 weeks of the year. And, of that number, three in every five worked full time (U.S. Department of Labor, 2005). One third of children born to working families are part of low income families (Kahne, 2004). Those numbered among the working poor span all races/ethnicities but those of African or Latino descent are more than twice as likely as Whites to be among the working poor (U.S. Department of Labor, 2005). Shulman (2004) offers an excellent description of this population:They are all around us in jobs essential to our lives. Low wage workers are security guards and childcare givers. They are nursing home workers and retail clerks. They are hospital orderlies and teacher's assistants. They are hotel workers and pharmacy technicians. They bone the chicken that we eat, clean the office buildings where we work and handle our questions and complaints at call centers. (p. 21)While some of these employment options require education or training beyond high school, that training does not always translate into higher wages (Blalock, Tiller, & Monroe, 2004).Why Does the Working Poor Population Continue to Grow?The number of Americans who comprise the working poor has risen over the past decade and continues to grow (Kim, 1998). A variety of reasons have been advanced to explain this increase. Changes in employment structure, including the loss of high wage manufacturing jobs has limited the opportunities available for those without advanced degrees (Gringeri, 2001). The restructuring of the welfare system was among the most important factors in the rise of the working poor population. This restructuring has forced former and current welfare recipients, with limited education and training into the low wage job market where jobs provide few, if any, benefits, and little if any opportunity for advancement (Whitener, Gibbs, & Kusmin, 2003). While the stated intent of this strategy was to get people into the work force so that they could \"","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"219 2 1","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86250984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging Families via the Internet: Process and Challenges","authors":"Laurie A. Bulock, B. Ames, Jodi L. Spicer, David R. Imig","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.102","url":null,"abstract":"A number of questions evolve around the best mechanism for using technology to support families and give voice to their special needs and interests across the life course. In this article we describe the processes involved in developing a longitudinal online data collection system and building an online community - namely, the Connecting Michigan Families Program. This project is a collaborative effort among families in thirteen Michigan counties, Michigan State University Extension and county Extension professionals, and MSU faculty and students. We emphasize the processes and lessons learned in engaging families and county Extension educators in a shared vision of the value of sustained online data collection and online exchanges of family knowledge and experiences. We also address the challenges and successes of such a collaborative effort, as well as implications for research and practice. There are many unanswered questions about the role of the Internet in a) family resource management and decision-making; b) the interactions between family and social capital; and c) enhancing family resilience processes. While research is beginning to emerge which describes how families use the Internet for knowledge acquisition, this study is unique in its attempt to engage families as producers and consumers of knowledge, in addition to being partners in the process of developing an online community.Project SummaryThe project summary is divided into two sections. The first section provides a brief description of the project in its early stages - Phase I. The second section describes Phases II and III.Phase I: Connecting Michigan Families ProgramThe purpose of the Connecting Michigan Families Program (CMFP) was to study the formation of social capital inherent in the development of an Internet-based community of families, local practitioners, and campus collaborators. The premise of this on-line community was to provide an opportunity for Michigan families to voice their interests and concerns, and to be heard by other families, community stakeholders and state decision-makers. Survey topics were created by input from families, and survey questions were phrased to provide insight into the issue of family resilience.Focus groups were conducted during Phase I in three Michigan counties in order to build trust, determine needs relevant to Michigan families, determine resources and barriers that could affect project participation, and to generate participant-driven topics for online surveys. County Extension educators worked directly with families to build rapport, establish buy-in, and maintain communication and feedback loops. They also assisted families with technological issues. During this phase, two pilot online surveys were conducted on topics determined during the initial focus groups.Lessons learned and feedback from families involved in Phase I informed the development of Phases II and III. Families indicated that a) they valued having a voice and s","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"45 13 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80429873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Instant Messaging Among Teens: An Exploratory Look at Gender and Time Usage","authors":"J. Lloyd, Peggy Meszaros, Ben Gotow","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.103","url":null,"abstract":"It is a classic image deeply entrenched in the mind of the 20th century American parent: an adolescent girl with a phone to her ear. Chatting with friends she left only moments ago, she paces the floor tethered to the wall by the 3-foot cord. In clear sight of her parents and siblings, her conversational content and time usage are subject to constant scrutiny and review. But in reality, the networking habits of today's teen bear little resemblance to this once classic image. The landline telephone has long been replaced by the cell phone (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2004) and the Internet, particularly instant messaging (IM), is well on its way to becoming the communication medium of choice for teens (Guidry, 2004; Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2004; Grinter & Palen, 2002).Yet even as IM has become mired in the life of the American teenager (Guidry, 2004) many unanswered questions related to gender and time use remain. It has been determined, for example, that women are more relationship oriented than men (Boneva, et al., 2001), and that women invest more in personal relationships and maintain a more extensive social network (Moore, 1990; Walker, 1994; Wellman, 1992). Women are also more frequent users of the telephone (Walker, 1994) and heavier users of email (Boneva, Kraut & Frohlich, 2001). But does it follow that adolescent girls are more likely to be heavy IM users than adolescent boys? Do girls participate in Internet web-blog communities, such as Xanga.com, more frequently than boys?Grinter and Eldridge (2001) raised issues of public versus private space as they emphasized that the popularity of IM among teens stems from their need to socialize with friends while confined to their homes. Hellenga (2002) reinforces this notion, stating that peer-based connectedness is especially important for adolescents. Grinter and Palen (2002) further suggest that teens use IM to carve out a private world within the public space of home. Parents, by definition, are not included in this private space, thus it becomes difficult to determine just how much time their teens are spending on IM. Subrahmanyam, Kraut, Greenfield, and Gross (2000) have shown that most parents believe that purchasing a computer for their teen will give them an educational advantage, but if teens are multitasking between homework and IM, or remaining online IMing with friends long after their parents have gone to bed, this advantage will quickly disappear.Using self-reported phone surveys and focus groups, the Pew Internet & American Life Project (2005), an independent non-profit organization, has provided a wealth of information about teens and the use of IM. As suggested by Reynolds (1971), however, this exploratory study utilized naturalistic observation via a computer program called Buddy Tracker. Written by a member of our research team, this innovative approach allowed us to monitor and record the IM usage of our sample population thereby providing a snap sho","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"151 1","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75407487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor","authors":"C. Shehan, Amanda Moras","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0011.104","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we examine the ways in which technological innovations have entered the home through the process of laundry. We take a brief look at the history of laundry technology, examining the costs of locating laundry in the private sphere and discussing alternatives. We highlight the links between laundry technology and ideologies about “women’s place.”","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78681150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Technology and Families","authors":"Martin A. Covey","doi":"10.3998/mfr.4919087.0011.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/mfr.4919087.0011.101","url":null,"abstract":"This Michigan Family Review explores the influence of technology on developing individuals and families. Technologies examined include domestic technologies, information technologies, and mass media. Individual development, family tasks, peer relationships, gendered work and communication, and family interventions are discussed through the lens of technological change.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76510136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}