Parental Burnout is the Latest Public Health Crisis

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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U.S. surgeon general Dr. Vivek H. Murthy has said that parental burnout is a public health issue on the same level as cigarettes, obesity and gun violence. It’s the result of a decades-long trend towards intensive parenting, according to New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller, who points out that working mothers today spend as much time with their kids as stay-at-home moms did in the 1970s. We talk with Miller about how we got to this point. Are you a parent who’s feeling burnt out? Guests: Claire Cain Miller, reporter, New York Times Dr. Keith Sutton, clinical psychologist; director of the Bay Area Center for Anxiety; former president of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	Coming up on forum, parental stress is at an all-time high, so high that the Surgeon General is calling it an urgent public health issue,
1:20.0	putting parental burnout on the level of diabetes or the opioid crisis. It's the result of a decades-long
1:26.2	trend towards intensive parenting.
1:28.3	Moms and dads say they feel like they must spend every free moment enriching their children's lives.
1:33.3	And this frantic dedication is driven by an underlying fear that doing otherwise might let their child slip behind.
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