《第67期Passage2》歌词

[00:00:00] 第67期Passage2-英语听力

[00:00:00] A new study from the University of New South Wales has

[00:00:03] discovered that during the working week,

[00:00:06] Australian fathers only spend an average of

[00:00:09] just over a minute each day alone with their children.

[00:00:13] Australian mothers, on the other hand,

[00:00:16] spend three hours a week

[00:00:18] purely looking after their children, a much greater disparity

[00:00:22] than in other countries like America,

[00:00:26] Denmark, Italy and France, where couples divide their

[00:00:30] child care more evenly.

[00:00:33] According to the author of the study, traditionally,

[00:00:37] Australian fathers appear to like the fun aspects of

[00:00:41] parenthood, but stay away from daily child care activities.

[00:00:47] So while they tend to be happy taking the kids to the park

[00:00:52] or to sports events,

[00:00:54] they are unlikely to participate regularly in feeding,

[00:00:58] bathing or taking the kids to school.

[00:01:02] In short, Australian parenting is seen as a woman's job

[00:01:08] and a man's hobby.

[00:01:10] However, the last 20 years have seen the arrival of the

[00:01:14] so called "new man" - the man who is willing to share

[00:01:18] the housework and child care.

[00:01:21] The mew man has a picture of his children on his

[00:01:24] computer desktop at work;

[00:01:27] he never missed the kids' school plays,

[00:01:31] and he passes on a drink after work so that he can get home

[00:01:34] in time to read their bedtime story.

[00:01:38] This new study suggests that the new man feels a little more

[00:01:42] at home in Europe than in Australian.

[00:01:46] Indeed, a poll conducted in the U.K. indicated that almost 70%

[00:01:52] of British women thought that men were as good at raising

[00:01:55] children as women.