'Quality time' is notion rooted in perfectionism.(Column)

National Catholic Reporter | June 20, 1997| | Copyright

I have to laugh at the debate about "quality time." If I don't, I'll cry. The New York Times and Newsweek magazine have recently given ink to this hot potato. Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochshild writes in the Times Magazine for April 20 of her discovery that many parents -- indeed many mothers -- at one large company she researched show a striking preference for being at work rather than at home. In perhaps overly simple terms, this preference is based on the gratification afforded by the workplace -- its easy camaraderie, its measurable standards of success, its tangible ...

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