They are the concerns mothers themselves raised across more than three years of earlier Count on Mothers surveys. The Benchmark now tracks all five at once, on the same mothers, so it can show how these pressures overlap rather than one issue at a time. Most research sees one of these at a time. This sees them together.
Maternal Capacity & Stress
The bandwidth mothers have to meet daily demands: perceived stress, time scarcity, coping capacity, and the buffering resources they can draw on.
Family Economic Pressure
Economic strain as a persistent household condition rather than an income threshold: financial strain, childcare and work constraint, healthcare affordability, food security, and care delayed because of cost.
Institutional Trust & Accountability
Whether mothers believe schools, healthcare systems, technology platforms, and government act in families' interests, and whether they feel able to navigate them.
Youth Environment & Commercial Conditions
The digital, commercial, and physical environments children are embedded in: AI and screen engagement, platform and content risk, advertising and harmful-product marketing, green space, and neighborhood safety.
Child Wellbeing Access & Support
Whether families can reach mental, emotional, and behavioral health support, the barriers they meet when they try, and the protective factors, such as peer friendship, that help.
Rotating module
Each wave adds a supplemental set of timely questions, reported separately from the core indices so the trend lines stay clean.
