Killer Stats

Parenting

• 18% of Australian men feel they have a satisfying relationship with their teenage sons. (Source: Macquarie University)
  
  
• In Australia 15% of children under 3 years are in formal childcare. (Source: The Australian)
  
  
• The early child birth fathering culture has improved in Europe with 58% of fathers in Demark now taking up paternity leave, and 80% in Norway
  
  
• In Norway 13% of new fathers switched temporarily to 4 day working weeks
  
  
• It is estimated that if all Australian fathers spent an extra 5 minutes a day with each of their children, the Australian economy would benefit by $5 billion per year based on related children's outcomes such as law (less crime), health (less drug issues), education (more interested learners) and greater industry productivity

•  By 2020, the World Health Organisation expects that depression will be the world's second most disabling disease (after heart isease) with it affecting 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men