Ask the Children: What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents. The data were quite clear: 85 percent of Americans may believe that parents don’t spend enough time with their kids, but just 10 percent of the kids in Galinsky’s survey wanted more time with their mothers, and just 16 percent wanted more time with their dads. A full 34 percent, however, wished their mothers would be “less stressed.”
Time with parents may be largely nagging and shuffling them about so perhaps children don’t even have pleasant associations with time with parents? Also, not surprised that the teenager portion of the cohort 8-18 year olds in survey) would say no to more parent time ;)
