cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19726571 > **_The surgeon general has a new public health warning. And this time, the hazard isn’t tobacco or alcohol: it’s parenting._**  > > Two-fifths of parents say that on most days, “they are so stressed they cannot function,” the Office of the Surgeon General reports in an advisory titled [Parents Under Pressure](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/parents-under-pressure.pdf). Roughly half of parents term that stress “completely overwhelming.”  > > Those dire findings anchor a 35-page report, released in late August, that posits **parental stress as “an urgent public health issue.”** It draws on data from the American Psychological Association and other sources to build a case that parents are facing more stress than at perhaps any other time in recent history. > > One-third of parents with children under 18 [rate their stress level](https://www.apa.org/topics/stress/parental-burnout) as 8 or higher on a 10-point scale, according to psychological association data. Two-fifths of parents report being “[so stressed they feel numb](https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2023/infographics/infographic-parents-other-adults).” Three-fifths say stress makes it hard to focus. Two-thirds are consumed by money woes.

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