For Many Parents, Work-life Balance Doesn’t Exist

If work-life balance is hard to come by for many American workers, then it's virtually impossible to achieve for working parents. A new study from the Pew Research Center captures just how porous the boundary is for parents who are struggling to juggle work and life. For the majority of parents, their caregiving responsibilities bleed into work—and vice versa.

In a survey of 2,242 working parents in the U.S., Pew found that among those who worked full time, 70 percent said they took care of parenting-related tasks while on the job, and 59 percent  handled work responsibilities while with their children. Over half of them said it was a challenge to balance work with family life and that their job made it harder to be a good parent. Nearly as many parents (45 percent ) said it was difficult to advance in their career as a parent. Even when parents worked part-time, over half said work-life balance was hard to come by.

Working mothers are, of course, having a more difficult time striking a balance.

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