The Diaper Dilemma
How not being able to afford a basic baby necessity hurts mothers’ mental health and their ability to parent
by Olga Khazan
Jul 21, 2015
2 minutes
Infants use about 240 diapers per month. A year’s supply of diapers costs $936. That means a single mother mother working full time at the minimum wage can expect to spend 6 percent of her annual pay on Pampers alone.
Meanwhile, the two biggest programs that assist
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