Parental stress: Severity warrants a Surgeon General advisory

Perhaps old news by the time this commentary is published, but essential to our work with children and families, the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued a public health advisory about the level of stress that parents in the United States face in trying to raise their children (Murthy, 2024). He cites the APA study statistic that 48% of parents report their day as overwhelming, compared to 26% of other adults (APA, 2023), a study which looked at trauma as a national aftereffect of the pandemic.