Dear La Stampa editorial staff,
I would like to be able to give voice to someone like me who is the parent of a small child, in the 0-3 year range, who is not entitled to parental leave as he can do smartworking but how do you work from home with a small child? I have only heard and read questions / interviews with parents with children in Dad, but never with parents of small children with closed nests.
And then also to a small minority of parents the single-parent families already heavily ignored and more penalized last year than normal families with 2 parents or with grandparents available and that now we are totally sunk!
I am a single mother with a 21 month old baby, I have no one who can help me with my child, my parents are gone. I can’t not work, I can’t get leave! To be able to work I have to pay a babysitter who costs me 3-4 times what the daycare costs me. You can’t work from home with such a small child! I already had to fund my savings last year for all those months of babysitting, without more help than families with 2 parents, now I don’t have those savings anymore. I need help but the government has been blind. Does any politician have or have had small children?
When I read the testimonies of those interviewed – more traditional families, 2 parents, 2 jobs, grandparents available – I and those who are like me are terribly penalized. And already last year I suffered a lot from not being able to get this “request” to anyone.
Seeing the discrimination against those who do smartworking in the accessibility to parental leave in the event of school quarantine already since autumn was worrying, but now I am distressed, I am afraid that the red zone may continue and not because they suffer from not being able to go freely around, but because I don’t know how to deal with money. I wish our voice could be heard, but I don’t know how.
Thank you for your attention, best regards
Tiziana Morra
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