Positive relationships with parents

Sex differences

Similar proportions of male and female students reported positive relationships with their parents.

Secondary students aged 12 to 18 years reporting positive relationships with parents, by sex, 2001
  Mum and/or Dad care
about me a lot (%) 		Most of the time I feel close to
Mum and/or Dad (%) 		Most weeks I get enough time to
spend with Mum and/or Dad (%)
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
Male 92.7 72.4 62.9
  (91.6, 93.7) (70.8, 73.9) (60.9, 64.8)
Female 92.3 69.6 60.8
  (91.4, 93.2) (68.1, 71.0) (59.2, 60.8)

Source: Adolescent Health Research Group, 2003.
Note: “95%CI” (95 percent confidence interval) signifies that there is a 95 percent chance that the true value falls within this range.  If the respective confidence intervals (in brackets) do not overlap, the difference between rates is likely to be statistically significant.