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Parenting in a Pandemic

Struggles of working parents on full display amid pandemic

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Mar 26, 2020

But the difficulty of balancing work and family predate this crisis.

About 75% of moms and more than 90% of dads work In the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, those parents are also homeschool teachers.

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