Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Priya Fielding-Singh; Elizabeth Talbert; Lisa Hummel; Lauren N. Griffin

doi:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11

Article Information

vol. 10 no. 4 225-247

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online August 26, 2024.

© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. Fielding-Singh, Priya, Elizabeth Talbert, Lisa Hummel, and Lauren N. Griffin. 2024. “Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(4): 225–47. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11. We thank the American Voices Project leadership, research, and staff team for collecting the data for this article. We appreciate the editors’ and our reviewers’ thoughtful and constructive feedback that advanced our analysis. We are grateful to the mothers who shared their experiences and stories of parenting and caregiving through the pandemic. All authors contributed equally to this work. Direct correspondence to: Priya Fielding-Singh, at priyafs@gmail.com, 4317 25th St., San Francisco, CA 94114, United States; Elizabeth Talbert, at elizabeth.talbert@drake.edu, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Drake University, United States; Lisa Hummel, at lhummel@stanford.edu, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, United States; Lauren N. Griffin, at laurennicholsgriffin@gmail.com, VPD Government Solutions, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Priya Fielding-Singh^a,
Elizabeth Talbert^b,
Lisa Hummel^c and
Lauren N. Griffin^d

^aSenior manager of research and education at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, United States
^bAssistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Drake University, United States
^cPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, United States
^dSenior social scientist with VPD Government Solutions contracted in the Division of Data and Improvement at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences, United States

Correspondence authors:
Priya Fielding-Singh, (priyafs{at}gmail.com), Elizabeth Talbert, (elizabeth.talbert{at}drake.edu), Lisa Hummel, (lhummel{at}stanford.edu), Lauren N. Griffin, (laurennicholsgriffin{at}gmail.com)

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