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Friday March 26, 2010

Some women quit work to drive kids
People buy less healthy food for others
Child health may suffer in strong economy
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Some women quit work to drive kids

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- At first, researchers say they thought U.S. moms quitting their jobs to drive their children to activities was a fad, but a study says it is a national trend.

Garey and Valerie Ramey of the University of California, San Diego, find that after three decades of decline, the amount of time dedicated to child care went up dramatically in the past 20 years, while the number of children per household decreased.

"I was shocked to find moms with graduate degrees who had quit their jobs because they needed more time to drive their children to activities," Valerie Ramey says in a statement.

At first, the researchers say they thought this was just a local fad, but after reviewing data from 12 U.S. surveys describing how people spend their time, from 1965-2007, they realized they were onto a national trend.

The study, published in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, finds on average, the amount of time college-educated women spent on child care went up from 13 to 22 hours per week since the mid-1990s -- mostly coordinating and driving their children to organized activities, while mothers without college spent 11 to 16 hours on child care.

College-educated fathers increased their child care from four hours to 10 hours, while fathers without college increased their childcare from four to eight hours, during the study period.

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People buy less healthy food for others

MIAMI (UPI) -- U.S. consumers buy healthier foods for themselves but choose foods that are less healthy when they are purchasing for others, researchers found.

Study leader Juliano Laran of the University of Miami discovered consumers exert more self-control when they make choices for themselves.

In one study, participants were asked to make a sequence of four choices from 16 items that were healthy -- items like raisins, celery sticks and cheerios -- or indulgent items like chocolate bars, cookies, Doritos, ice cream and doughnuts. Half of the participants were asked to choose four items for themselves, while the others were asked to choose four items for a friend.

"When making choices for themselves, participants chose a balance of healthy and indulgent food items," Laran says in a statement. "When making choices for others, however, participants chose mostly indulgent food items.

"One of the reasons the population gets more and more obese is that a lot of the food we consume is chosen by other people, like friends throwing a party or parents buying for their children."

The findings are published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

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Child health may suffer in strong economy

STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) -- A study in Colombia found a short-term economic boom resulted in illness and mortality rates among children increasing, researchers said.

Researchers Grant Miller of Stanford University in California and Piedad Urdinola of the National University of Colombia said that when coffee prices spike, workers spend much more time tending fields and less time doing things that are good for children's health.

"The net result is that infant and child health actually becomes worse despite the fact that people are making more money," Miller said in a statement.

"The reverse is also true, the study found. When coffee prices fall abruptly, people work less and child health improves, even though families may have less money."

Miller and Urdinola said the results suggest that for Colombian households, time may be more important than money when it comes to keeping kids healthy.

"The things that matter most for infant or child health in rural Colombia -- things like breastfeeding, bringing clean water from far away or taking a child to a distant health clinic for primary care services or vaccinations -- aren't very expensive, but they require a substantial amount of time," Miller said.

The findings are published in the Journal of Political Economy.

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