Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone | Emma Beddington
People keep coping until they absolutely can’t, and parents are at breaking point. Why aren’t politicians treating this as an emergency?
It is the kind of statistic that makes you do a double-take, because it can’t be right. It is, though: 41% of US parents are so stressed that they can’t function. That was the number that snagged my attention, but reading further into the newly released advisory by the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, 48% of parents surveyed also said their stress is “completely overwhelming”.
Things are not much better in the UK. In a survey last year for the United Nations Children’s Fund, 49% of parents of under-fours said they had felt overwhelmed all or a lot of the time in the past 12 months (43% felt anxious, 36% unsupported and 26% lonely).
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