Family & Work after COVID-19

By: Daniel Alexand…
Created: 16 May 2020 - 08:05
Updated: 18 May 2020 - 02:05

The restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 crisis has put an additional stress on families with children. This will represent a challenge for the period to come.

In that regard, Eurostat has published a statitsics showing the relationship between family and work in the European Union. 

In 2019, nearly 42 million adults lived in households with at least one child aged less than six years. Almost one third of these adults (32%) lived in households where all adults were working full time. Around one in five (22%) lived in households where all adults were working, with at least one of them working part time. Furthermore, two in five (39%) lived in households where at least one adult was not working and one adult was working, while 7% lived in households where none of the adult members were working.

Read more on https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20200501-1