I started taking the pandemic seriously when schools closed. I’ve never seen day-to-day life change so drastically for so many Americans.
Friends began posting pictures with their kids online, with #homeschooling. I couldn’t help but wonder: How the hell would a single mom juggle everything in this new normal? It feels untenable.
I’m not raising kids so I reached out to single moms in the Bay Area area to find out. Call it morbid curiosity, but it’s also a study in human resilience.
Two moms agreed to keep regular audio diaries during the first three weeks of the regional shelter-in-place orders. Rachelle Rasmussen, 39, lives in Santa Clara, California, with her sons, ages two and three months. She’s nursing both of them.
Trained in accounting, she left her job to raise the children while her husband worked. That plan fell apart last summer when, in her first trimester of pregnancy, he physically attacked her. They separated after the domestic violence incident…
To read the entire article from 90.9 WBUR, click https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/04/10/single-moms-pandemic-life?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20200410&utm_term=4513711&utm_campaign=the-new-normal&utm_id=51924487&orgid=
