Adult responsibilities are making kids too old, too soon

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says parents are too stressed out these days. The combination of work and childrearing may simply be too much for us.  

“It’s time to recognize they constitute a serious public health concern for our country,” Murthy writes. “Parents who feel pushed to the brink deserve more than platitudes. They need tangible support.”

And it is true. Parenting is difficult. Making a living is difficult. So is making the grade. But the fact is that we are doing a lot of this to ourselves.