After a year cooped up with their kids, parents - or at least many parents - are struggling. In my interviews with parents of young children, they talk about being exhausted, about feeling like failures as parents and in their paid work roles. They talk about depression and anxiety and about being so on edge all the time that they’re frequently yelling at their partners or their kids.

And those stresses don’t just show up in the qualitative data. They can be seen in the quantitative, as well. Here, I’ll share some basic descriptive data from an online survey I ran in December 2020 with a sample of about 2,000 U.S. parents. Participants were recruited through the Ipsos iSay panel and received points for their participation. The data are weighted to be representative of parents with children under 18.

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