A new survey says working parents are stressed, tired, and rushed
Parents also feel they don’t have enough quality time with their children.
Children today are more likely to grow up in a household with two working parents, and both of those parents are stressed out, according to a New York Times report.
The report outlines a new Pew Research Center survey that found parents are stressed, tired, rushed, and feel they don’t have enough quality time with their children.
Paid family leave and more child care would help parents, Mary Blair-Loy, a sociologist and the founding director of the Center for Research on Gender in the Professions at the University of California, San Diego, told the Times.
“This is not an individual problem, it is a social problem,’’ Blair-Joy said. “This is creating a stress for working parents that is affecting life at home and for children, and we need a societal-wide response.’’
Read the full story in the Times.
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