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Parents – especially moms – often carry the mental load that comes with trying to balance what their families need with what their job demands. And with so many obligations, it’s not surprising that working parents sometimes feel like they can’t give 100% at home or at work.
On Reddit’s largest parenting forum, around one-in-five posts mention kids’ tech use. Posts often express negative emotions, but comments are overwhelmingly supportive.
About four-in-ten parents say they could be doing better at managing their kid’s screen time. A larger share – 58% – say they’re doing the best they can.
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Here is what Center surveys show about American moms’ experiences juggling work and parenting responsibilities during the COVID-19 outbreak.
In April 2021, we followed up with many of the same parents surveyed in March 2020 on their children’s use of technology and social media.
As people are living longer and many young adults struggle to gain financial independence, 23% of U.S. adults are in the “sandwich generation.”
47% of U.S. adults say single women raising children on their own is generally a bad thing for society, an increase of 7 points since 2018.
51% of working parents of children younger than 12 say it has been at least somewhat difficult to handle child care responsibilities recently.
53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
Disagreements among Americans across the religious spectrum extend to personal issues, such as life priorities and gender roles in the family.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
The share of mothers who said it would be best for them to work full time dropped from 51% to 44% between 2019 and 2020.
