working parent
Breadwinner with kids
A working parent is a parent who holds a job outside the home or works from home while raising children.
The term highlights the dual responsibilities of employment and childcare: As a working parent, she struggled to find time for school events.
It often appears in discussions of work-life balance, parental leave, and childcare policy.
- jugglingSequential toss-and-catch performance
- exhaustedUtterly depleted of energy
- daycareChild supervision facility
- commuteRegular work travel
- guiltMoral self-reproach
mental load · balance · overtime · multitasking · breadwinner · babysitter · deadline · lunchbox · flexibility · second shift · pumping · maternity · paternity · burnout · provider · homework · PTA meeting · carpool
- household rolesmother, father, husband, wife, homemaker
- dual rolesactor-director, player-coach, owner-operator, writer-director, singer-songwriter
- living arrangementscohabitation, roommates, housemates, shared housing, house share
- single parentssingle mom, single dad, single mother, single father, unwed mother
- parentingchild, mom, children, kids, childcare
- workforceemployee, employees, labor force, employer, labor
working parentstay-at-home parent
Non-employed primary caregiver
stay-at-home mom · stay-at-home dad · homemaker · housewife · househusband
working, parent, work, works, worked, worker, workers, workable, unworkable