A story that is sweeping the news outlets right now is such a hard reality for so many.
With the average cost of diapers a week at around $18, it’s the one thing many single moms struggle with purchasing. The New York Times reported that a single mother earning $15,080 per year in a minimum-wage job would need to allocate roughly 6 percent of her income just for diapers.
All this on the heels of a report published Monday in the journal Pediatrics showing that almost 30 percent of low-income women expressed serious diaper need.
The study sadly found that moms and parenting women had trouble changing their kids as often as they’d like, turning “to social service agencies, friends or family for help or had ‘stretched’ the diapers they had ( meaning dumping out the solid waste in the diaper and reusing as long as they could).
Since government-subsidized benefits don’t cover diapers, women struggle to find the budget to keep up with the constant demand of diapering their babies.
Read more HERE.
Are you hard-shipped by the cost of diapers?
