The chart illustrates the amount of time spent on children to help with four different activites (dressing, homework, playing games and preparing for bed) by Australian parents in 2013. Units are measured in percentage of time.
Overall, mothers spent more time on helping their children than fathers in the period given. Australian mothers, however, were took up more time on dressing whereas fathers spent most of their time on homework. Additionally, the least amount of time was spend on playing games by mothers compared to dressing by fathers. Both parents together spend their time more on playing games while dressing was at least.
In terms of dressing, mothers spent about 75% on this as opposed to fathers who spent their time approximately 1%, but both parents together spend just above 20 percentage points. Similarly, female parents time expenditure was higher on homework than male parents (around 50% and 10% respectively) while both of them all together spent just below 40%.
On the other hand, the amount of time took up on playing games by mothers who help to their kids (around 25%) whereas the fathers was spent around 5%, but both of them were spent almost 70 percentage points. As regards preparing for bed, mothers who help to their children on preparing for bed accounted for about 42% while fathers made up around 6%, both of them stood at above 50-point.