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Dads spend just a minute a day with their kids.

November 3, 2008
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According to recent research in Australia fathers are managing to spend very little time with their children on weekdays. Averaging just six minutes alone with their children from Monday to Friday. Social researcher Lyn Craig reveals in a new paper, Father Care, Father Share in International Perspective,  that fathers spend more time with their kids at weekends but, mostly [...]

Is this the end of reading?

November 3, 2008
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According to the National Endowment for the Arts’s survey of reading habits, in 1982, 56.9 per cent of Americans had read a literary book in the previous year. This fell to 54% in 1992, and 46.7 percent in 2002. When television was introduced in the Netherlands, reading time plummeted from 5 hours per week to [...]