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For almost a year, mothers have been working, teaching, parenting, cooking, cleaning and trying to breathe, all in the same minute. They’re at their breaking point and this is their primal scream: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html
The crisis for American moms is both financial and emotional. “Covid took a crowbar into gender gaps and pried them open,” said Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Michigan told me https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/parenting/working-moms-mental-health-coronavirus.html
“I feel like a ticking time bomb that is constantly being pushed to the breaking point, but then I am able to defuse myself,” Dekeda Brown, 41, told @jessicabennett, who spent several months with three moms in three parts of the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/covid-pandemic-mothers-primal-scream.html
“Some days are so busy they feel like they don’t even exist,” said Liz Halfhill, 30, a single mom to an 11-year-old son in Spokane, Washington.
This crisis is not irrevocable. @clairecm spoke to policy experts about how to start fixing what’s broken. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/parenting/government-employer-support-moms.html
And @PoojaLakshmin has tips for how parents can bolster their frayed mental health https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/parenting/working-mom-burnout-coronavirus.html
But it’s going to take time for any policy put in place to actually help mothers. And though the vaccine is here, we don’t know when the end will come.
So in the meantime, listen to these cathartic primal screams from @nytimes readers, and maybe open a window, and let out your own. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html
