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It Keeps Getting Faster:

Changing Patterns of Time in Families

For many families, responsibilities for work, family and community appear to gobble up every morsel of time that is available, leaving families feeling hopelessly caught at the end of the day in a recurring paradox between an angst about getting it all done and remorse that they have not done enough with their children and families. This paper examines some of the forces that have shaped the accelerated pace of change that leaves so many families suffering from the "time crunch".

35 pp., 2000, $10.00
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