Pandemic Impact on Mothers

COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on mothers' and infants' mental health ...

The authors of the study report that pregnant women assessed after the declaration of the Coronavirus epidemic had significantly higher rates of depression ...

Dramatic change from pandemic brought on stress for mothers

But, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, mothers who experienced sweeping changes to their ...

pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting during COVID-19 – a ...

Individuals who were parenting during COVID-19 experienced more worry, higher anxiety, and depression [31–33]. Specifically, mothers experienced ...

Pandemic Impact on Mothers: Coronavirus: More IU Research

“Our data suggests that because of pandemic-related disruptions to paid work and childcare routines, many mothers greatly increased their time with their ...

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

Much of the focus has been on the effects of school closings and child care responsibilities on mothers' employment and labor force participation rates.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal mental health, early ...

This review aims at mapping the existing evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal mental health, early childhood development, and parental ...

Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers' Parenting Experiences and the ...

Over the past four years, robust quantitative and qualitative scholarship has documented the pandemic's varied negative impacts on mothers, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic's traumatizing effect on mothers in the USA

A new research paper presents the results of a study on how this affected maternal stress levels in American mothers, concomitant with other factors such as ...

Mothers' Employment Two Years Later: An Assessment of ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic became widespread in early 2020, maternal employment has experienced significant disruptions. Here, we show how steeply maternal ...

Motherhood in the Time of Coronavirus: The Impact of the Pandemic ...

The present study aims to investigate women's psychological well-being during pregnancy and in the first months after childbirth.

Working mothers during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study on ...

The strain on mothers of children school-aged and younger during the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred anxiety, depression, and the exacerbation of ...

Pandemic stress reshapes the placentas of expectant moms

Elevated maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic changed the structure, texture and other qualities of the placenta in pregnant mothers ...

What The Pandemic Took From Me As A New Mother

A time in life that's supposed to be full of connection was replaced by virtual confrontations. This dynamic often left lonely new moms feeling ...

Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic

When COVID-19 was recognized as a public health emergency in the United States (U.S.), many mothers felt their struggles more acutely. Much of 2020 feels like a ...

Measuring the Pandemic's Impact on New Mothers & Their Children

NYU Langone's Dr. Moriah Thomason recently launched a study to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new mothers and their offspring. Learn more.

The Pandemic's Lasting Impact on Mothering and Employment

COVID-19 drove a decrease in mothers' paid work hours, in gender parity in parenting, and in fertility. These changes may shape a ...

Women, Work, and Family During COVID-19: Findings from the KFF ...

A majority of mothers of children under 18 (54%) say that worry or stress related to coronavirus has affected their mental health, significantly ...

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

The pandemic is also a mental health crisis for mothers that fervently needs to be addressed, or at the very least acknowledged. “Just before ...

Mothers' employment has surpassed pre-pandemic levels, but the ...

The Women's Bureau shares important data highlighting that overall maternal employment has largely recovered from the steep declines ...

Working moms in the U.S. have faced challenges on multiple fronts ...

Earlier this year, about half of working parents said the coronavirus outbreak had made it difficult to handle child care responsibilities, and ...