America has long told parents to figure it all out for themselves -- which has largely meant women figuring it out, and men relying on women to parent their children and care for their homes. Now, that neglect is even more extreme. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/05/working-while-parenting-coronavirus-pandemic/?arc404=true

This is a political choice, and it's not one that our peer nations make. Covid has pushed things well past the breaking point. It is physically impossible to be a full-time worker, a full-time parent, and a full-time teacher. Yet that's what we ask of parents (well, mothers).

If you're a single mother in particular, how do you decide what's more important? Keeping a roof over your children's heads and keeping them fed, or making sure they continue their educations so they aren't behind forever and are physically safe and looked after?

We don't have to do things this way, to make single moms choose between homelessness and a better future for their kids. We don't have to set things up so that even two-parent families with means have no idea how to make it work when their family is an isolated island.