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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (4) 225-247; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11
Priya Fielding-Singh
aSenior manager of research and education at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, United States
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Elizabeth Talbert
bAssistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Drake University, United States
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Lisa Hummel
cPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, United States
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Lauren N. Griffin
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
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Priya Fielding-Singh, Elizabeth Talbert, Lisa Hummel, Lauren N. Griffin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2024, 10 (4) 225-247; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11

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Priya Fielding-Singh, Elizabeth Talbert, Lisa Hummel, Lauren N. Griffin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2024, 10 (4) 225-247; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.11
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