Little league games don't take that long. You can still work 80 hours and attend your child's sport games.

I really doubt you can work 40 hours and make a huge mark in the world.

I don't have aggregated, scientific data for the views below but….

I don't think parents need snuggle their kids for them to be successful.

1) Pierre Trudeau (one of the most revered Canadian Prime Minister),
2) Rupert Murdoch,
3) Ted Turner,
4) Chiang Ching Kwok (former Taiwan President, one of the most successful)

All these men are recorded saying their fathers were incredible busy and spent little time with them.

You don't see them on drugs or failing in life.

Just because their fathers bum around at home for 8 hours a day doesn't make them good parents. Especially if parents have so little work to do they stick their nose in their kids lives in the name of "helping" their children.

Whether these above people are "good" people or not (e.g. both Trudeau and Chiang were caught having extra marital affairs) is debatable, but they both grew into competent men whom made significant positive impacts in their careers.

I see way too much "work life balance" as an excuse to be lazy. Just because someone is lazy and works only 40 hours doesn't automatically make them an amazing parent.

50% of marriage end in divorce. Only 1% of people make more than $150,000.

Let's even say EVERY upper class person gets divorced. You still have 49% of divorced being caused by those whom are not upper class.

Just because you don't work long hours, doesn't mean you are a good parent.

As for the Medtronics CEO, has it ever occurred maybe he is lying? A number of billionaires claimed they work under 50 hours. A certain computer company owner says he reads to his kids every night, how would his travel schedule permit that? He was at a conference in Europe in the afternoon……is his jet really THAT fast?

Thank you for sharing the article.

Michelle