IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FAMILY AND EDUCATION-A STUDY

SOCIOLOGY

“As everyone knows, when the pandemic hit, many workplaces closed and many low-income parents whose job situations were already unstable lost their jobs or had reduced hours and pay,” We separately observe the associations between economic hardship, exposure to the virus, and pandemic-induced increases in childcare time on parental mental health and stress, parent-child interaction, and children’s adjustment. Changes in parental employment induced by the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased the time that parents have available to be with their children but may also have changed the organization and patterns of family life, including how parents spend their time at home and with their children. School re-opening models have been implemented globally and nationally with varied distancing and infection control measures. A review of schools and early childhood education settings that remained open during the first pandemic wave - albeit with low attendance at epidemic peak - demonstrated low case numbers and secondary transmission rates, with rare child to child or child to staff transmission. In addition to learning, families and children rely on schools for social engagement, structured opportunities for physical activity, food access, access to some health services, and psychosocial support,37 as well as enabling time for working parents to balance work and care giving demands.

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