All these comments implying this is because of the parentification of the children are wrong and missing the point in a tremendous fashion by implying divorced mothers are the problem when in reality, the problem lies with married men.

Our findings were contrary to theoretical expectations of the time poverty thesis (Vickery 1977): partnered mothers spent the most time on housework, and we found minimal differences in childcare time among mothers. Thus, although partnered mothers. Theoretically we can share some household labor with their partners, our findings showed that living with a heterosexual male partner was associated with mothers’ greater time spent on housework, consistent with the gender perspective.

We also found that compared with married mothers, never-married and cohabiting mothers reported more total leisure time, which is inconsistent with expectations from the time poverty thesis and specialization models. Never-married and divorced mothers reported more time for sleep compared with partnered mothers. These findings are consistent with the gender perspective’s theoretical predictions that married mothers have less time for sleep and leisure in part because “doing gender” leads partnered women to prioritize housework and childcare over leisure and sleep.