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Dr. Rufus Sylvester Lynch, Academy of Certified Social Workers Fatherist and Chair of the Strong Families Commission and Luisa Olivo-Wolf, Assistant Chief Program Officer for Community Progress Council, joined us on Friday’s Smart Talk to discuss the importance of fatherhood, obstacles and challenges fathers may face, and resources to help them.

Returning to work has been known to be difficult for new parents for a wide variety of reasons: lack of sleep, implicit biases that new parents face, finding the time and space to pump breast milk, postpartum, hormonal changes, separation anxiety and guilt, getting back in the swing of work duties and schedules, and so much more.

PBS NewsHour presents an in-depth look at how the lack of affordable, quality child care is affecting American families.

A bill that would change the process made it through a House committee unanimously, and now goes to the full chamber for a vote.