Even if you're perfectly healthy and your kids are perfectly healthy, I don't believe

people are meant to do this, you know, two parents plus kids.

It's too few people.

I mean, to say nothing of one parent plus kids.

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

And we need to talk about war and an assail.

Journalist Ezra Klein explores a wide-ranging beat on his podcast and in his column

at The New York Times.

He's interested in how policy systems interact with Americans,

political identities, and how all that trickles down in each of our lives.

And like many of us, the past few years have been characterized by a lot of upheaval in his life.

The year before the pandemic, he and his wife had moved across the country

from Washington, D.C. to the San Francisco Bay Area.

And what kicks off then is a four to five-year period, depending on how you count it,

where my partner got very sick and very mysterious ways, which

interacted with pregnancy with two pregnancies in infinitely disastrous ways.

Their workplaces shut down.

They didn't have family locally.

And earlier this year, they decided they couldn't stay.

It really was because that was just too hard.

It was too hard to be there with young kids and one of us being sick without family support,

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