The Pandemic Should Encourage a New Alloparenting Future
Yael Schonbrun and Rebecca Schrag Hershberg
In March 2020, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, parents were left without their customary allies, almost overnight. To differing degrees (because we all know that the virus and its ramifications did not impact all communities equally ), it didn’t take long before parents were feeling the repercussions of that loss. In the wake of the pandemic shutdown, school hours were shortened or cancelled. For fear of making grandparents ill, we couldn’t have them come over. The playgrounds we l