[Families with infants and toddlers in the COVID-19 pandemic: parental stress and child development considering social class].

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is now well established empirically that families and children who could not attend educational and childcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced disadvantages. This is particularly true for families in poverty. However, little is known about the situation of families with young children. The aim of the paper is to investigate (1) to what extent families with infants and toddlers also experienced their situation during the pandemic as stressful, (2) whether there were differences depending on social class, (3) how the pandemic affected the healthy development of infants and toddlers, and (4) to what extent class-related differences can also be identified in this.

Methods

The German National Centre for Early Prevention conducted a nationally

SUBMITTER: Renner I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10371926 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature