Child’s cognitive skills linked to time spent with mother

Extending free childcare will not change parents’ work patterns, study suggestsIt is a question that has troubled parents down the years. Just how much time should they spend with their children when they are growing up?Now a new study suggests that the answer – at least for mothers – should be as much as they can afford to give. The study, by academics from the University of Essex and University College London, published in this week’s edition of the Economic Journal, fi