with dressing, homework, playing games and preparing for bed in the year 2013.
Overall, dressing and homework recorded the highest rate of time from mother, whereas playing games and bed preparation observed the highest share of both mother and father together. Moreover, fathers showed the lowest participation percentage in all four given activities.
Regarding the activities that mothers spent most of their time in,mainly alone, There was approximately 70% of time mothers spent to support children to dress. By contrast, there was roughly 2% of time from fathers help. Additionally, the half time of mothers was to helping children with homework, compared to a lower distribution of fathers and both parents together at roughly 12% and nearly 40%, respectively.
Concerning the remaining chores, playing games saw a high of closely 70% contribution rate by both mothers and fathers together. This figure for mothers was about 25% and higher than fathers at around 20%. Ultimately, mothers and both parents together accounted for 40% and 50% surplus, in assisting their sons or daughters prepare for bed, respectively, meanwhile the responsibility share in this task of fathers was only about 5%