The given bar chart illustrates the time amount that parents devote to help their children across four different tasks in Australia in 2013. Overall, it is evident that the dressing and homework witnessed the highest share of mothers’ time, whereas both parents spent almost all of their time on playing games and preparing for bed with children. Additionally, fathers’ time represents the lowest among all the given cohorts.
Regarding the activities that mainly involved mothers only, dressing took the lead over total mothers’ help with approximately 75%, while fathers only shared about 4% of their time and both of them shared 22% for their children. In the responsibility of homework, moms devoted over a half of time, compared to a smaller contribution of dads and both parents together at 10% and 38% respectively.
Concerning the remain tasks, the devotion of both parents overtook the moms one, becoming the highest cohort in playing games with roughly 69%. The proportion for moms in this activity witnessed 27% and the dads one was 5%. In preparing for bed charge, both parents together were nearly 10% higher than the time of mom moms, while fathers only recorded for 5%, equal with playing games.