The 1992 Time Use Survey 5 found that parents who minded their own children as a main activity spent, on average, less than 2 hours per day on it. However, often child care takes place with other activities. For example, a person may be minding their child while cooking a meal and report cooking as the main activity. Child care is then considered a secondary activity. Income A child's well-being, in terms of standard of living and quality of life, depends to a considerable extent on their family's economic resources.
Children are dependent on their parents for food, clothing and shelter.
Equivalent income can be used to compare the financial resources of different family types. Equivalent income adjusts for the number of adults, their labour force status, and the number of dependent children in a family. In 1992-93, there were 23,199 substantiated cases of abuse of children aged under 15 years. Girls were more likely to have been abused than boys. This is because girls were more likely to have been sexually abused than boys.