Childhood after coronavirus

How will kids' lives change as society learns to function alongside a highly contagious and deadly virus?

A child.
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It will be a long time before we can say we're in a post-COVID world. But as the country gradually eases out of lockdown, we're coming to grips with the fact that nothing is going to be the same as it was before — and that goes for our kids, too.

So what will childhood look like from now on? How will kids' lives change as society learns to function alongside a highly contagious and deadly virus? And what will this time do to kids' psyches?

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Claire Gillespie

Claire Gillespie is a freelance writer with bylines on Health, SELF, Refinery29, Glamour, The Washington Post, and many more. She likes to write about parenting, health, and culture. She lives in Scotland with her husband and six kids, where she uses every (rare) spare moment to work on her novel.