父亲们你们每周花多少时间在孩子身上？

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调查发现澳洲的父亲们从周一到周五花在和孩子独处上的时间仅为区区的6分钟。算上周末的话父亲们照顾孩子的时间也不过1个小时。反观母亲们，每个星期照看孩子的时间为3小时，这个照顾还不包括诸如给孩子铺床叠被，整理玩具等家务。

专家把该现象解释为澳洲家庭结构的特殊性。在澳州夫妻中，较多的母亲在生育后选择兼职工作，而不是全职。相反地，世界上一些其他国家中双职工现象比较普遍，相应地父亲和母亲花在照顾孩子上的时间的差异就不那么明显了。


Dads give kids a minute a weekday





http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24521433-601,00.html

[size=1em]Stephen Lunn Social affairs writer | October 20, 2008

AUSTRALIAN fathers spend just six minutes alone with their children from Monday through Friday, averaging slightly over a minute a day.

Overall, they spend an average of just shy of one hour each working week caring for their kids, but 90 per cent of that care is done alongside the mother.

Social researcher Lyn Craig has found in a new paper, Father Care, Father Share in International Perspective, to be presented in Sydney tomorrow night, that fathers spend longer with their kids on weekends but, again, mostly as a family unit.

Dr Craig says that when caring solo, fathers rarely do the drudge work such as feeding, bathing or ferrying children to and from school or childcare. Their time is more likely to be spent at "events" such as going to the park or taking the kids to sport.

The disparity between Australian fathers and mothers, who spend almost three hours a week purely looking after children (without counting child-related housework such as making their beds, cleaning away toys or doing their washing) is greater than in countries such as the US, Italy, France and Denmark.

But fathers in those countries also spend little time alone with their children - with US, French and Italian fathers at similar levels to Australia. Danish dads do about 17 per cent of care alone because far more mothers work full-time in Denmark.

"It's a reflection of the fact that childcare is a family and leisure activity for men," Dr Craig from the University of NSW Social Policy Research Centre told The Australian yesterday.

"Men tend to contribute when they're free, when they can do the fun things, and when it is a family group situation. Women are the default carer, so they tend to do much more of the routine tasks and multi-task with their other household duties at the same time as looking after children," she said.

"It's a woman's job and a man's hobby. And it stays basically the same regardless of the amount of work women do in the paid workforce."

Dr Craig said the structure of families was at the heart of differences between Australia and Denmark, where fathers and mothers divide the care more evenly. Almost 65 per cent of couple households in Denmark have two full-time workers compared with less than 20 per cent here, she said.

Nearly half of couple households in Australia have a full-time/part-time model, compared with just 12 per cent in Denmark, leaving the mother to take up much of the family care.

"Our work and family policies here, including family tax benefits and the absence of paid maternity leave, make it harder for couples to share the care and encourage the specialisation of women in family care and men in paid work," she said.

But it isn't all bad news. Australian couples overall tended to spend more time caring for their children than those in the other countries examined, even though they work considerably longer in their paid work than those in the European countries.

"There is a high value placed on family care in Australia. Everyone's doing their best. It's just a case of developing policies to help men assist," she said.
Dr Craig said it remained an open question whether new policies that helped Australian women return to the workforce after having children would inevitably lead to men helping more with the childcare.

Cultural factors may still be at play, she said.

WTFAUS

估计部分是这里的childcare 又贵又少的关系