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The percentage of time that Australian mothers and fathers spent helping their children with four activities in 2013

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The given line chart illustrates the proportion of
time
 that Australian parents set aside
time
 for their
children
 in 2013 in four activities, namely dressing,
homework
, playing
games
, and preparing for bed.
Overall
,
mothers
 spent more
time
 on their sons and daughters than fathers. Dressing and
homework
 were two activities that
children
were
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shared mostly
by
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 their mommies
while
 their daddies helped them more in playing
games
 and preparing for bed. Standing at 50%, the percentage of
time
 that parents helped their
children
 with dressing and preparing for bed was the same. Meanwhile, the rate of
time
 that fathers prepared for bed with their
children
 was four
percent
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,
was
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as
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that in dressing. The proportion of
time
 that
mothers
 helped their offspring with dressing was the highest,
stood
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 at 75%. In terms of
homework
 and playing
games
, the amount of
time
 that both
mothers
 and fathers shared with their
children
 in
homework
 was over
a
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half of that in playing
games
, at 38% and 70% respectively. The rate of
time
 that
mothers
 allocated to their
children
in
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to
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homework
was
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were
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 60%, which was over twice as much as that in playing
games
, at only 25%.
Besides
, the opposite was true for
mothers’s
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 counterparts.
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