The Decline Of Parental Joy + The Rise Of More “Adaptive Children”

Let’s stitch a few things together here.

Alright, let's put a few different things together for this one.

Today, over in the New York Times, you have this op-ed from the Surgeon General about how parents are at their wit’s end:

Opinion | Surgeon General: Helping Stressed-Out Parents Should Be an Urgent Priority

I would classify this as the “nut graf” therein:

In the past few years we have made progress, expanding access to early childhood education, maternal health programs and a mental health crisis hotline for kids and adults. We have much more to do, however, to make parenting sustainable. This means bolstering financial support for families, including child tax credits. It also means ensuring all parents can get paid time off to be with a new baby or a sick child, secure…