The difficulties of parenting, according to the author of a new book
Parents are more fearful about the future as it pertains to economic and climate insecurities, according to Andrew Bomback.
Parenting seems to have changed a lot in the past several decades. Raising kids is more expensive than in the past, in part due to rising prices and also because younger people are poorer today than their parents were at the same period in their life.
Today, parents often feel like they are burdened and face a lot of stress.
“A working mom today is devoting the same amount of time and spending considerable more money, inflation adjusted, than a stay-at-home mom in the seventies did.” — Andrew Bomback, author
Listen: The struggles new parents face today.
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Andrew Bomback is a physician and Director of Clinical Research at Columbia University. He is also the author of “Long Days, Short Years: “A Cultural History of Modern Parenting.”
Bomback says new parents essentially have little-to-no time for themselves in comparison to previous generations.
“A working mom today is devoting the same amount of time and spending considerably more money, inflation adjusted, than a stay-at-home mom in the seventies did,” says Bomback.
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