I'm so glad to hear these stories finally surfacing. I had a one-year-old and a pregnant wife when lockdowns started. It was absolutely brutal, as we both had f

I'm so glad to hear these stories finally surfacing. I had a one-year-old and a pregnant wife when lockdowns started. It was absolutely brutal, as we both had full-time jobs, and obviously there was absolutely nowhere to go or no-one to turn to for help. It has most definitely coloured my opinions of the usefulness of lockdowns. One of the most dismaying long-term effects of what parents have been made to go through is what I consider the abrupt decline in acceptable parenting techniques - how many young kids have now been deliberately stuffed in front of a TV or given a tablet to keep them quiet, while parents try to hold down jobs? Part of what made our lives so hard was my refusal to do such things.