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The real accelerants of parental stress are the modern worries that prior generations could not even imagine.
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Kathryn Anne Edwards
It’s official. Parenting is difficult. So much so that US Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory about the stress and mental health issues that parenting creates. Parenting joins social media for children, healthcare worker burnout and firearm violence as issues the US Department of Health and Human Services felt it needed to formally address.
The surgeon-general is a politically appointed position, so a warning of this kind naturally evokes some scepticism. This is just another way to push for Democrat priorities like more funding for childcare! These millennials are soft and need to stop complaining! Who are they to say parenting is harder now? In the grand tradition of being right and wrong at the same time, maybe prior generations did have it harder, but there is nothing to gain by withholding help from today’s parents.
