Katharina Buczek
The research also highlights the impact of conventional gender norms. Since mothers are often viewed as the main caregivers, there’s a greater expectation for them to be more involved in their children’s lives, including mealtime participation.
This is evident in how moms are still more likely to make it to family dinners, even when the same isn’t as expected of dads.
Certainly, other variables could also be influencing parents’ ability to join family dinners, like pressing financial circumstances that call for longer work hours or evening shifts.
“For example, dinner time for young kids is typically around 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m., but the expectation that parents are home early in the day doesn’t align with being an ideal worker,” concluded Karen Kramer, associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
“Policy initiatives to help provide a work environment and community support that facilitate family mealtimes would be important.”
To read the study’s complete findings, which have since been published in the Journal of Family Psychology, visit the link here.
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