Why Do Working Parents Experience Chronic Stress?

[Shree]

Balancing work, home responsibilities, and childcare is overwhelming. Why do even supportive households not prevent stress? What interventions at work or home can reduce burnout?

 

[Nomad]

There is a simple reason, working parents bear both work related stress as well family stress. As a working parent myself, I not only am burdened with my work but I also have the responsibility to look after kids, when you have to battle in two fronts you sure are burned with chronic stress.