{"id":718799,"date":"2026-06-22T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718799\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:52:25","slug":"most-married-parents-now-work-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718799\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Married Parents Now Work Full Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Mom and dad holding down full-time jobs is no longer the exception\u2014it&#8217;s now the norm. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2026\/06\/16\/for-working-parents-the-boundary-between-work-and-family-is-often-blurred\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center analysis<\/a> finds that in 2023, 52% of different-sex couples with minor children had both parents working full time, the highest share on record and up sharply from 1975, notes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/17\/parents-families-both-work-full-time-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>. The shift tracks with more college-educated women entering the labor force and families grappling with higher living costs. Traditional setups are fading: households with a full-time working father and a non-employed mother dropped from 42% in 1975 to 23% last year. The trend varies by race, ethnicity, and education, with dual full-time work especially common among mothers with postgraduate degrees. Most parents in these two full-time-job homes say it&#8217;s a financial plus, even as some still view a stay-at-home mom as better for kids. More:&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mom and dad holding down full-time jobs is no longer the exception\u2014it&#8217;s now the norm. A new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,304313,43984,148,40931,116976],"class_list":["post-718799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dads","tag-moms","tag-parenting","tag-pew-research-center","tag-remote-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}