Ms. Galán is the oldest of five sisters. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother needed her to watch her sisters while she went to work, she said. “My mother was the father, and I was the mother.”Those skills have helped her run her own household, she said. But the arrival of the pandemic shook Ms. Galán and her family in unexpected ways. Unemployed and stuck indoors as the virus spread last spring, she and her partner, Ian’s father, began to argue, she said.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2021 00:00 UTC