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Many schools are closed. Child care options are limited. Parents, particularly single mothers, are struggling to navigate it all.
@bcrodriguez reports on how moms are making it work in the pandemic as they wait for action from the federal government.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb
2/ During the pandemic, many mothers have reduced work hours or left the workforce altogether — in some cases, not by choice — to help their children with remote school learning or to address the logistics of sporadic daycare closures.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb
3/ Vivien Tsou tried to remote work and care for her three-year-old son at home after the pandemic closed her daycare. The initial weeks were “impossible.” Her son was confused about why he couldn’t spend time with his mom. He had internalized that being at home was family time.pic.twitter.com/rWZM4vT06i
4/ In the fall, Beth Lykins’ children were set to start kindergarten and preschool, giving her a break on child care costs. Now, they’re enrolled in online learning. And the growing cases of COVID in her community means she’s had to keep paying for child care while she’s at work.pic.twitter.com/vawXWebyNi
5/ Kelly Secovnie was able to stay home to take care of her children this year via a program available under the emergency federal aid that Congress approved early during the pandemic. She still needs to figure out what child care will look like in the new year.pic.twitter.com/cRXS6qkrre
6/ These mothers are some of the roughly 13.6 million single parents in the country. During the pandemic, these parents have even fewer options in a fractured child care system, and it has complicated their ability to work.https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb
7/ It remains unclear what the federal government will do to improve the lives of these parents — and by extension, their children. This month’s pandemic relief bill tackles paid leave, child care and food insecurity — but experts say it’s not enough.https://bit.ly/38Ic2aL
8/ And once a new administration is in office, a popular $775 billion caregiving plan proposed by President-elect Joe Biden may be contingent on whether Democrats can win a pair of U.S. Senate runoffs in early January.https://bit.ly/34voF7P
9/ Any relief coming for parents will carry additional significance for single parents, who already face higher rates of poverty than two-parent households.
Single mothers are almost twice as likely as single fathers to be living below the poverty line. https://bit.ly/34voF7P pic.twitter.com/U8tl7RIvpw
10/ This hardship is worse for women of color, who took some of the biggest hits in pandemic-induced job losses.
The unemployment rate for Latinas was 15.3% in June. For Black women, it was 14%.
All the while, women continue to earn less than men.https://bit.ly/3l1GIIi
11/11 For now, single mothers are managing the best they can — as are their kids. Recently, Tsou has noticed her son is trying to become more self-sufficient. “My son is trying to take care of himself, which should not be an expectation for a 3-year-old.”https://bit.ly/3o6Bldb
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