Parents’ mental health and well-being is suffering more than that of other adults under the weight of economic and societal pressures, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in an advisory published on Aug. 27.
The advisory notes that age-old worries parents have always coped with have been compounded in recent decades with the introduction of new technology and social media, a youth mental health crisis, and an “epidemic of loneliness” disproportionately affecting young people and parents.
