America Has Been Failing Mothers. The Pandemic Made It Worse

It's time to abolish our conception of what it means to be a mother in America and rebuild it on a policy level.

Opinion | Mothers All Over Are Losing It - The New York Times

The pandemic has made a thing that was already a source of shame for many of us all the more acute. Failures of self-regulation aren't the ...

“It's always hard being a mom, but the pandemic has made ...

How has it been to be pregnant and/or a parent during this time? 2. What advice do you have for other pregnant and postpartum women during this time, or, ...

America is failing Black moms during the pandemic - Vox

The pandemic is making the maternal health care crisis worse. ... Maternal mortality has been rising across the United States for decades.

When We Talk About Mothers and Work During the Pandemic ...

... times more women than men have lost jobs since the beginning of pandemic and data suggest that it's been worse still for working mothers.

'I felt like a failure.' Motherhood in the pandemic, one year later - WXYZ

Vicky Mahnke of Ferndale, who is the mother of two children with special needs, said if her employer hadn't been incredibly flexible, she would ...

US births are down again, after the COVID baby bust and rebound

... pandemic that did not result in a live birth. ... That leaves an additional 30,000 missing births unaccounted for that would have been conceived ...

America's Mothers Are in Crisis - The New York Times

For months, as the pandemic disrupted work and home life, these moms, like so many parents, had been stretched thin — acting as caregivers, ...

COVID-19 has highlighted challenges for U.S. moms, but many aren ...

The pandemic has presented challenges and obstacles for many Americans, but one group has been getting a lot of attention lately: moms.

America's parents are not okay - The Week

The pandemic has revealed many uncomfortable truths about life in the United ... The three of us had all been sick with the flu for a week.

Why the COVID-19 Baby Bust Is Bad for America - Time

On top of financial worries, the pandemic has plagued would-be mothers ... The childcare industry has been slammed by the pandemic, according ...

Guilt and fury: how Covid brought mothers to breaking point

“The pandemic is making everything worse. All the services are fraying. I shouldn't have been forced into an impossible situation in my own home ...

Working moms still struggle a year into the pandemic - ABC News

The kitchen table has become more than just a place to eat dinner for Opal Foster and her 13-year-old son, Jeremiah, of Silver Spring, ...

Life has never been easy for single moms. The pandemic made it ...

Nationally, mothers lost work at three times the rate of fathers in the pandemic. The loss was even worse for single mothers.

American Mothers are Trying Harder Than Ever–So Why Do We ...

Even before they have children, women sense a lack of support that makes motherhood ... That makes us heroes, not failures.” That bears ...

The U.S. birth rate began dropping years before the pandemic ... - PBS

For the sixth year in a row, Americans had fewer children, and births in the US decreased by 4 percent compared to 2019.

The mental health crisis of working moms - CVS Health

Since the pandemic began, 1 million U.S. women have left the ... Making matters worse, working moms typically care for themselves last.

Welcoming new life under lockdown - NCBI

... mothers has been heightened by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Expectations of ... pandemic have made the experience of being a first‐time mother any ...

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Forcing Millennial Mothers Out of the ...

... has long characterized U.S. domestic economic policy. ... problem seems to have only gotten worse with the pandemic stretching into summer.

The women's recession isn't over — especially for moms - The 19th

Only about half of those losses have been made up, and gains have largely plateaued since September. ... “The pandemic has shown us that ...