According to areport from the Wall Street Journal,in a Survey of 500 chinese fathers released earlier this week by communications company JWT, respondents ranked driving their children to extracurricular activities and to school first and second, respectively, as the childcare responsibilities they most viewed as the responsibility of the male in the family. More than two-thirds of Chinese fathers surveyed said they saw these tasks as their responsibilities, not their wives’.
Fathers ranked handling doctor visits, disciplining children and helping with homework third through fifth on the list of daddy jobs.
Chinese men view parenting differently from their American counterparts. In a similar survey completed in the U.S. earlier this year, more than 80% of American fathers said discipline was their top role, with homework help ranking second.
The survey showed that this generation of dads think they’re more involved with parenting than previous generations, though there are still some chores they won’t touch. Less than one-fifth of Chinese fathers said they viewed changing diapers and making lunches as their job.
Kids have long been an obsession in China, but the chatter about family has increased this past week after the government that it would ease restrictions on its longstanding policy of restricting most families to having just one child.
Fathers’ roles have also been featured in the media limelight in recent weeks after a reality show called “Where Are We Going, Dad?”became a hit last month on Chinese television and the online video site Tudou.
