Esther Yu
Adversity in Families: Impacts on Mothers’ Wellbeing and Children’s Mental Health
We did this study to improve our understanding of how different factors in a mother’s life—like her mental health, financial resources, relationship status, education, and parenting style—affect her child’s development.
I Felt Like I Was Going Crazy: Understanding Mother’s and Young Children’s Experiences with Learning at Home During COVID-19
We examined the effects of the switch to at-home learning on young children and their mothers in Toronto during the early pandemic (Study 1) and how these challenges evolved later in the pandemic (Study 2).

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Michal Perlman
Professor, University of Toronto and Director
Dr. R.G.N. Laidlaw Research Centre,
University of Toronto
Email: michal.perlman@utoronto.ca
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