th the shift from two parents to
             single parent, gay parent or blended families, from working fathers and stay at home mothers to working fathers and mothers, from life long marriages to and divorces "the Dick and Jane family barely exist anymore," Hein's states.
             Since wages began to rise and workplace discrimination began to fall , now seventy percent of women with children work, fifty percent are back on the job within one year of giving birth, and two to three million "latchkey" children are alone between the ages of three and seven. (Watt, 1998, pg 22) Researchers estimate kids get ten to twelve hours per week less with their parents that their 1960's counterparts. As parents work more and spend more time on other activities like exercising, meditating, and doing more community service. According to one statistic, American workers spend an average of 163 more hours per year on the job than 1960's workers did amounting to a month more of working. &q
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