COVID-19 has affected our country in many different ways over the past few months. People are practicing social distancing and staying at home, businesses have closed down temporarily, and large events, concerts and sporting events have been postponed or fully cancelled because of the national pandemic.
The coronavirus outbreak has even caused some daycare centers to temporarily close their doors for the safety of the children and employees who work there, which has made it hard for families with young kids. One local couple in South Bend, Indiana has been affected by these closings and had to make a very difficult decision on what to do with their daughter.
Noa Kakalia and his fiancé’ Bailey Rentschler are both considered essential employees, Noa working as a project engineer for a construction firm in Noblesville, Indiana and Bailey a nurse at a hospital in Carmel, Indiana. The couple contemplated for days on how they will properly care for and keep their one-year-old daughter, Palmer safe while also commuting to and from their exposed places of employment daily.
The couple had to make what they call “one of the hardest decisions” at this time to not have their daughter living under the same roof as them, and sent her off to live with Kakalia’s parents until things started clearing up.
