The given bar chart illustrates the amount of time that parents devote to helping their children across four different tasks in Australia in 2013. Overall, it is evident that dressing and homework witnessed the highest share of mothers’ time, whereas both parents spent almost all of their time 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 shared 22% for their children. In the responsibility of homework, moms devoted over half of time, compared to a smaller contribution from dads and both parents together at 10% and 38%, respectively.
Concerning the remaining tasks, the devotion of both parents overtook that of mothers, becoming the highest cohort in playing games with roughly 69%. The proportion for moms in this activity was 27%, and that of fathers was 5%. In preparing for bed, both parents together were nearly 10% higher than the time of mom moms, while fathers only recorded 5%, equal to playing games.