A recent report by social researcher Lyn Craig, the subject of an article in The Australian today finds that where the parents are together, Aussie dads spend just over a minute a day alone with their children during the week and while they do spend longer periods of time at the weekends, it is more likely to be taking them to sport or the park rather than doing the “drudge work such as feeding, bathing or ferrying children to and from school or childcare“.
This is interesting when compared with The Weekend Australian’s article reporting a survey conducted by the Child Support Agency that finds that “three-quarters of divorced fathers want to have custody of their children for at lest 50 per cent of the time, while as many as 36 per cent wish they could have their children all of the time.”
Is it a case of “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”?
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