HealthDay, in an article carried on BusinessWeek.com, reports on the growing evidence that children of the unemployed often struggle with depression, poor school performance, and behavioral problems as a result of the increased stress in their households.
"In a recent CBS News/New York Times poll of more than 700 unemployed adults, nearly half of those who reported being unemployed for six months or more said their children's lives had changed; nearly 40 percent said they had noticed changes in their children's behavior," HealthDay reports.
Dr. Audrey Walker, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, estimates that nationally, one in seven children has an unemployed parent. That's 10.5 million kids.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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