Suppose you study a group of working-class, dual-income couples who have just had a baby. In all of these families, one of the parents agrees to work "off-shift" in hours different from the traditional 8-to-5 workday. Generalizing from research described in the text, in the first year of your study, you would expect to see that the off-shift work was especially difficult for _______ and in the third year of your study, you would expect to observe that off-shift work was especially difficult for ___________.

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According to a study cited in the text, in the early stages of parenting when children are young, off-shift work was more detrimental to maternal health and well-being than to paternal health. Mothers working off-shifts got less sleep and had more difficulty juggling baby care with work demands, and they were more often depressed than those on regular work schedules. A year later, shift work for either the mother or father typically began to interfere with the couple's relationship with each other-wives reported less marital love. By the second year of shift work, fathers also were reporting less marital love.

Suppose You Study a Group of Working-Class, Dual-Income Couples Who