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Covid-19 has meant the youngest children can’t go to birthday parties or play dates. Parents are keeping them out of day care. What is the long-term effect of the pandemic on our next generation?

Although most young people recover quickly, doctors are seeing some children and teens with lingering fatigue and other chronic problems.

Improvements in gender equality in the workplace may be another casualty of the coronavirus, as women find their place in the work force more at risk.

Our struggle is not an emotional concern. We are not burned out. We are being crushed by an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.

For the adults in the house, trying to do their own jobs while helping children with class work has become one of the most trying aspects of the pandemic.

In response to some private hospitals’ decision to bar partners, New York will order all hospitals to allow partners in delivery rooms, despite the coronavirus risk.