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Interesting. So, is it Dalrock's summary you disagree with or some part of the excerpt he quotes written by The Other McCain?
I guess the other McCain since that is mostly what is there and I don't even fully disagree with that just adding that I don't think that is the whole picture when talking about quality time but maybe part of it.
I do think the quality of the time we spend with our families is important so to say that the term is solely women or both men and women to justify them being away from their children for large chunks of time is fair. I see where they are coming from but I just know how important some quality time is for me so I don't think it is solely a term made up to make single parents feel better about themselves. It is nice to take trips with your kids but that is not the only way to have quality time with children and many times it just pops up with an impromptu conversation, quick game, or a tickle time with daddy. If the parents were single parents the impromptu time would happen less.
So, just for clarity, for you "quality time" isn't something parents can deliberately plan out with their children beyond being available, but it's something that just happens spontaneously and that's what makes it valuable to child development. However, you disagree that the term exclusively became popularized as a form of pop-culture rationalization by people in our society who were assisting with or advocating kicking fathers out of the home as the numbers of divorces began to rise.
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