The Parents Aren’t All Right
For years, research on hyper-attentive parenting has focused on all the ways that it can hurt children.
Now, the U.S. government is reframing that conversation and asking if our new era of parenting is actually bad for the parents themselves.
Claire Cain Miller, who covers families and education for The New York Times, explains why raising children is a risk to your health.
Guest: Claire Cain Miller (https://www.nytimes.com/by/claire-cai...) , a reporter who writes for The Upshot at The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The surgeon general warned about parents’ stress (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/up...) , a sign that intensive parenting may have become too intense for parents.
• Read the surgeon general’s essay (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/op...) about parent stress.
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