In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, AACAP has created the Coronavirus Resource Library to assist families and physicians during this time.

1. Inform yourself about organizations that advocate for universal health care, subsidized quality childcare, and other government-supported benefits that will more easily enable employers to allow for part-time, flexible, or diverse career paths.

2. Network with colleagues to study and develop a variety of models for diverse ways of integrating career and a family and personal life at both ends of the age spectrum.

3. Educate yourself about continuing sexism, discrimination, and the persistence of out-dated models for work and personal/family life.

4. Expect that change will be uneven, frustrating, and slow, but press on for change.

5. Note that even in Sweden, where generous family leave and flexible and reduced schedules were available along with universal health insurance and other workplace benefits, it took a generation for men to use these family-friendly options.

6. Every family structure is different. Experiences and issues that one deals with in a single parent family, two mother families, two father families, blended families, families dealing with divorce, and other types of families may be unique to their situation. The ability to express one’s own needs for their family in the workplace is essential in trying to get individual needs met.

7. Implementing change for ourselves and within our institutions can result in broader social acceptance of effectively integrating career and a personal/family life.