The bar graph compares the proportion of time each parent in Australia spent on assisting their offspring with four different activities in the year 2013.
Overall, while a majority of children’s dressing and homework time was supported by mothers, fathers spent much more time playing games with their children. Additionally, the percentage of time both were involved in any activities was always the lowest.
Regarding children’s dressing and homework, mothers’ participation was much higher than fathers’. The figures for mothers were 70% for the former activity and 60% for the latter one, compared to just a fifth and around a third for fathers, respectively. As a result, the percentage of time they both joined their children in each activity was only no more than 10%.
Conversely, children played games with their fathers more than their mothers, with 70% and around 25% of time, respectively. However, the figure for both parents’ participation was similarly lowest, at around 8%. Meanwhile, bedtime preparation was the only activity that witnessed an equal share of each parents’ support, with respective figures being 50% for fathers and about 47% for mothers, leaving just 3% of the time both parents assisting their children before beds together.