Children, Work, and Safety on the Farm during COVID-19: A Harder Juggling Act.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the Spring of 2020 immediately raised concerns among farm safety experts about the increase in children's risk exposure due to changes in childcare and schooling arrangements. The goal of this study is to understand how farm parents were taking care of their children in the early months of COVID-19.

Methods

I conducted univariate and inductive content analysis on survey data from 134 farm parents from 38 U.S. states to understand.

Results

My findings overall confirm experts' predictions. The move to distance learning for about three-quarter of respondents with school-age children and changes in childcare arrangements for over half of those with pre-school-age children led respondents to contend with fewer options a

SUBMITTER: Becot FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022887 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature