Parents' own health

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Parents' own health

Disability and lone parenthood, from Together Magazine issue 4

Most of the lone parents I talked to report that their own health has suffered as a result of high levels of stress, exhaustion and financial worries. Ill-health not only increases costs and reduces parents quality of life, it also interrupts studies and hopes of future employment:

'I was so ill (and the) behaviour of my younger son deteriorated so badly ...I couldn't manage to do my course work'.

'I'm looking after everybody but there's no-one looking after me... Sometimes I get up, and I think I’ll just go back to bed, but I can't.'

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