Basic necessities don’t come easy for some CT families. See where it’s hitting hard.

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Amid an uncertain month of benefit freezes and shifting eligibility rules, families struggling to afford basic necessities are confronting another urgent need affecting Connecticut’s youngest residents:

Diapers .

In the U.S., close to half of families with children 3 and under struggle to purchase diapers. In Connecticut, it would take 38,136,000 diapers each year to fill the diaper gap, according to a study published by the Urban Institute in September. And in the past few months, this “diaper disparity” has only gotten worse.

“The phones are ringing,” Janet Stolfi Alfano, the CEO of The Diaper Bank of Connecticut said.

According to the Urban Institute , the average monthly cost of diapers for one child is $100. The median American