Illustrative image of a child in confinement.

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The Covid-19 crisis, with its two periods of confinement, was trying but also allowed parents to spend more time with their children, reveals this Tuesday a survey carried out at the request of the government, intended to better support families .

62% of respondents say they felt more fatigue than usual during this crisis, a figure that rises to 70% of parents living with their children, according to this Harris Interactive study carried out at the end of November with a sample of 2,123 people (method quotas), at the request of the Secretary of State for Children and Families, Adrien Taquet.

A family bubble

However, 48% of respondents believe that the crisis had a positive effect on their ability to listen to their loved ones, and 41% to make themselves available to their children.

In addition, 84% of parents report spending more time with their children, and 64% say this time is better.

"The family was struck, upset in its habits", but also "proved to be a safe haven, faced with the anxiety-provoking nature of the time", commented Adrien Taquet to AFP.

Another study, qualitative this time - carried out by the Kantar Institute via long interviews with 15 parents or grandparents - showed that "creating a bubble around his family was the emotional crutch of the French to get through this moment" .

Resources for families

However, "the educational continuity and the continuous care of the children were not easy" for the parents, according to this study, which also shows the anguish felt by the grandparents when they are kept at a distance from their little ones. -children - perhaps even more during the second confinement - and prevented from accompanying them in their extracurricular activities.

If the crisis were to last, families are waiting for additional resources for “homeschooling”, for help to encourage children's physical activity, and for ways to make long-distance exchanges between children more “fun”. grandparents and grandchildren.

"We need to provide better support, provide stable benchmarks, in terms of support for education, or the issue of managing screen time for parents," commented Adrien Taquet.

The Secretary of State said he was ready to "work with digital players to see how to speed up the appropriation" of IT tools and the Internet by the generation of grandparents.

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