The bar chart compares how much time that parents in Australia spent assisting their children with various activities in 2013.
Overall, mothers spent most of their time helping their children get dressed and doing homework, while playing games and preparing for bed made up the most time for both parents. Notably, the fathers spent the least amount of time in all of the pursuits.
According to the chart, the mothers spent more time helping their children with daily routines like dressing and getting ready for sleep, accounting for over 70% and 50% of the time, respectively. These figures were higher than those of fathers, with merely 4% in dressing and 5% in preparing for bed. Although the figure of those activities done by both parents saw the same pattern as fathers in getting dressed with approximately 23%, the bedtime routine was higher than the others, accounting for more than 50%.
Turning to after-school activities, mothers continued to devote more of their time to doing homework with their children than the fathers and both parents together, at merely 52%, 12%, and 48%, in that order. However, both parents accounted for roughly 70% dedicated to playing games with their children, significantly higher 45% than the figure for mothers and around 65% than that for the fathers.