Support WBURRaising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensivePlay43:36Download AudioTerry GrossJune 21, 2022 ShareFourth-grader Lucy Kramer (foreground) does schoolwork at her home, as her mother, Daisley, helps her younger sister, Meg, who is in kindergarten, in 2020 in San Anselmo, Calif. (Getty Images)