By KVC West Virginia Staff — 2020
For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.
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Hiding your feelings can be freeing. But eventually you have to take off the mask.
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It’s called emotional labor. And mothers have a lot of it.
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'They still hold the mental burden of the household even if others share in the physical work and this mental burden can take a toll,' says report's author.
The household tasks taken over by most moms—including the often invisible emotional work—have increased exponentially.
When it comes to household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men. Why is this, and is there anything we can do about it?
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Emotional labor is the invisible work in families, disproportionately by moms.