Empowered Health
Ep. 54: Unintended consequences: Solo moms face extreme vulnerability during COVID-19 shutdown
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:05:38
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Synopsis
While the coronavirus shutdowns have been difficult for everyone, they weigh especially heavy on single moms who are navigating everything alone. Dr. Marika Lindholm, a sociologist and founder of Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere (ESME), an online community for solo mothers, explains how the pandemic has amplified single mothers' socioeconomic vulnerabilities. Across dozens of ESME-hosted Facebook groups, the moms' posts contain the same undertone: They are scared.