2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

Over time, the percentages of mothers reporting help in a number of areas, including help with shoppingand child discipline, significantly increased. In addition, there was a significant increase in the percentageof mothers reporting that their “partner gives advice on children or household problems.”Table 46. Types of Husband/Partner Support over Time aType of Support% Year 1 b % Year 2 b % Year 3 b % Year 4 b % Year 5 b(n=249) (n=239) (n=228) (n=228) (n=229)Any support from husband/partner 99 100 99 99 99Talk to husband/partner about problems orpersonal things96 95 99 99 99Husband/partner helps with money, food, orclothing94 95 98 99 99Husband/partner shops for food orhousehold items78 80 85 95 92Husband/partner helps around house withcleaning or repairs82 85 81 90 94Husband/partner helps with child discipline 77 92 92 97 97Husband/partner gives advice on children orhousehold problems73 74 70 90 89Husband/partner provides other help (e.g.,transportation, childcare)33 25 10 15 25Husband/partner support score c (mean(SD))5.3 (1.5) 5.5 (1.2) 5.3 (1.2) 5.8 (1.0) 5.9 (0.9)a Data were weighted to account for the oversampling of mothers in the Glades and mothers assessed “at risk.”b Responses to these questions were mothers who reported that they were married or in a relationship with a partner.c The husband/partner support score is based on the frequency of all individual items (i.e., calculated by adding all “yes”responses to the items in the table). This differs from the calculation of the support score in previous reports.*Paired sample t-tests indicate that the following year-to-year differences are statistically significant at p < .05 or lower: talk1 vs.talk4; talk1 vs. talk5; talk2 vs. talk3; talk2 vs. talk4; talk2 vs. talk5; money2 vs. money4; money2 vs. money5; shop1 vs. shop4;shop1 vs. shop5; shop2 vs. shop4; shop2 vs. shop5; shop3 vs. shop4; clean1 vs. clean4; clean1 vs. clean5; clean2 vs. clean5;clean3 vs. clean4; clean3 vs. clean5; discipline1 vs. discipline2; discipline1 vs. discipline3; discipline1 vs. discipline4; discipline1vs. discipline5; discipline2 vs. discipline4; discipline2 vs. discipline5; discipline3 vs. discipline4; advice1 vs. advice4; advice1vs. advice5; advice2 vs. advice4; advice2 vs. advice5; advice3 vs. advice4; advice3 vs. advice5; other1 vs. other3; other1 vs.other4; other2 vs. other3; other2 vs. other4; other3 vs. other5; other4 vs. other5; score1 vs. score4; score1 vs. score5; score2 vs.score3; score2 vs. score4; score2 vs. score5; score3 vs. score4; score3 vs. score5.In year 5, as in previous years, a majority of mothers reported talking to their husbands/partners aboutproblems on a daily or weekly basis and getting help daily with money, food, or clothing (see Table 48).Overall, there was a slight increase in the overall amount of support over time. In addition, there werenotable increases in the amount of “daily” support for help around the house with cleaning or repairs and,especially, child discipline, which increased from 60 percent in year 1 to 79 percent in year 5. Consistentacross the 5 years, husbands/partners were least likely to perform household tasks and most likely toprovide child discipline on a “daily” basis.Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 76