The bar chart illustrates how Australian parents spent their time accompanying their children in 4 daily activities in 2013.
Overall, parents in Australia rarely assisted their children at the same time. While mothers helped their kids with dressing most, fathers played the same role in playing games. In addition, referring to bed preparation, there were hardly any remarkable differences in time division between mom and dad.
Precisely 70% of time offspring getting dressed were assisted by mothers, while that by fathers only made up 20%. In terms of helping children with their assignments, the figure for mom doubled that of dad, with respective data being 60% and 30%. Conversely, fathers performed best in playing games, as 70% of gaming time was spent with them by kids, tripling mothers’ nearly a quarter.
With regard to preparing for beds, Australian parents gave help at a similar percentage of around 50%. Besides, the proportion of time both mother and father assisting their descendents in separated activities were relatively insignificant. They participated together most in accomplishing homework with kids, at 10%, compared to about 8% in playing games and 5% in dressing up. The last figure for setting up beds was rather negligible.