A new report on the changing patterns in parental time use and their implications for parental well-being, published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and funded by the Economic Social Research Council, has found that a third of mothers (33 per cent) reported always feeling rushed, compared with just under a quarter of fathers (24 per cent).
The research compared time diary data from the UK Time Use Survey in 2000-01 and 2014-15 to examine the extent to which UK parents experience time pressure, whether parental time pressure has changed over time and how time pressure varies among different types of families.
It examined:
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