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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Children
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Date: Sat, 10-Sep-83 12:08:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 10 12:08:40 1983
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I heard an interesting statistic a couple days ago.  There was a study
done (no refs..sorry) of how much "Quality time" fathers spent with their
kids.  Quality time was defined as time verbally communicating.  First
the parents were asked how long they thought.  They estimated what would
seem to be low numbers like 1 hour.  Then they put microphones on the kids
and checked for several days.  The actual time?: 38 seconds per day!
Meanwhile the kids were watching 6 hours of TV a day.
No further comment....
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