Abstract
In the last decade there has been a continued increase in the presence of a second worker in the Australian household. Combined with this increase has been a growing importance placed on a wide variety of extra-school activities for children as adjuncts to the educational process. The degree to which extra-school activities take place outside the home or school, together with the increased difficulty for parents to act as chauffeur, has created conflicts and difficulties not usually the subject of policy-makers attention.