ESSENCE Poll: How Do You Balance Your Work and Time With Your Kids?

There’s an urban myth about being able to maintain your ideal work-life balance after having children. We all want it, but it rare that we can all do it.A new study from Ohio State University actually found that new parents underestimate the time they spend at work and overestimate how long they spend on childcare and household chores. Researchers followed 182 couples both before and after they had babies.