The word beleaguered means being surrounded by difficulties or problems, often causing stress and hardship. It can also refer to a person or group that is under pressure from various sources, making it difficult for them to cope or succeed.
Toni Collette is another sort of beleaguered mom in horror entry «Heredity» (A24), which could be limited by its genre. (indiewire.com)
Minivans enjoy a reputation as the vehicle of choice for mothers to bring their future soccer stars to practices, and for beleaguered fathers plagued by endless questions and sibling infighting to question their life choices; in essence, the modern family car. (cnet.com)
Eventually the salaries of the doctors and staff, and the upkeep of specialized hospitals, burdened a rail industry already beleaguered by competition from automobiles, trucking and airplanes. (discovermagazine.com)