Father's Day in the UK

FATHER'S DAY in the UK The UK spends about 50% LESS on Father's Day than Mother's Day HOW MUCH...? dad £771.4m i mum £1.5bn AND... an estimated 1 out of 5 dads get no card at all MOST POPULAR FATHER'S DAY GIFTS HOW MANY CARDS ARE GIVEN? hammer ¥ tie chocolate, DK dvd Mum 13m socks To 7m Dad K £14.45 Americans dad spend more than Brits mum £77.02 £27.37 £99.94 average spend DO WE ALL CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY? |NO 22% YES 78% WHAT DO WE SPEND OUR MONEY ON? 5% cards. 71% gifts 21% meals out TOTAL SPEND = £771.4m 3% leisure & days out DO DADS DESERVE MORE? 48-hour working week is the LONGEST in the EU Working dads spend nearly HALF as much time with their children than working mums 57% of working dads said they want to spend MORE time with their children and work LESS BUT 40% did NOT take their 2 weeks' paternity leave CURRENT UK DAD STATS 5.9m men live with dependent children 227,000 are stay-at-home dads 180,000 are single dads BEST CELEB DAD? 73% David. say Beckham. Sources:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288831/Mothers-Day-2013-Children-spend-twicegifts-mum-Fothers-Day.html#ixz2TqIX Gsko,http://about.datamonitor.com/media/archives/4315,https://www.moneyodviceservice.org.uk/en/news/cost-of-mothers-day-reveale d,htp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fathers-day-facts-and-trivia-398817,http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewliv e&sp_id=1381,http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/dads-fear-the-social-stigmo-of-staying-at-home-8 439821.html,http://careers.guardian.co.uk/fathers-choose-not-to-take-paternity-leave,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/840850 3/Working-mothers-spend-81-minutes-a-day-looking-after-their-children.html,http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families- and-households/2012/index.html,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/9822271/Rise-in-stay-at-home-fathers-fuelled-by-growing-numbers- offemale-breadwinners.html,http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families-ond-households/2012/stb-families-households. html#tab-Lone-parents, http://www.askamum.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Current-news/Best-celebrity-dads-No-1-David-Beckham/ brought to you by red letter DAYS FATHER'S DAY in the UK The UK spends about 50% LESS on Father's Day than Mother's Day HOW MUCH...? dad £771.4m i mum £1.5bn AND... an estimated 1 out of 5 dads get no card at all MOST POPULAR FATHER'S DAY GIFTS HOW MANY CARDS ARE GIVEN? hammer ¥ tie chocolate, DK dvd Mum 13m socks To 7m Dad K £14.45 Americans dad spend more than Brits mum £77.02 £27.37 £99.94 average spend DO WE ALL CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY? |NO 22% YES 78% WHAT DO WE SPEND OUR MONEY ON? 5% cards. 71% gifts 21% meals out TOTAL SPEND = £771.4m 3% leisure & days out DO DADS DESERVE MORE? 48-hour working week is the LONGEST in the EU Working dads spend nearly HALF as much time with their children than working mums 57% of working dads said they want to spend MORE time with their children and work LESS BUT 40% did NOT take their 2 weeks' paternity leave CURRENT UK DAD STATS 5.9m men live with dependent children 227,000 are stay-at-home dads 180,000 are single dads BEST CELEB DAD? 73% David. say Beckham. Sources:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288831/Mothers-Day-2013-Children-spend-twicegifts-mum-Fothers-Day.html#ixz2TqIX Gsko,http://about.datamonitor.com/media/archives/4315,https://www.moneyodviceservice.org.uk/en/news/cost-of-mothers-day-reveale d,htp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fathers-day-facts-and-trivia-398817,http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewliv e&sp_id=1381,http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/dads-fear-the-social-stigmo-of-staying-at-home-8 439821.html,http://careers.guardian.co.uk/fathers-choose-not-to-take-paternity-leave,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/840850 3/Working-mothers-spend-81-minutes-a-day-looking-after-their-children.html,http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families- and-households/2012/index.html,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/9822271/Rise-in-stay-at-home-fathers-fuelled-by-growing-numbers- offemale-breadwinners.html,http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families-ond-households/2012/stb-families-households. html#tab-Lone-parents, http://www.askamum.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Current-news/Best-celebrity-dads-No-1-David-Beckham/ brought to you by red letter DAYS