Stress of recession ‘felt more by lone-parent families’

New research, looking at the stress endured by families in the recession, says our new economic reality is far more complex than the notion of the “squeezed middle”.

The study was carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). It examined the impact that pre-recession socio-economic factors had on the stress levels of households with children between the years of 2008 and 2012.

“The analysis shows that the reality is more complex than either the ‘class polarisation’ or ‘middle-class squeeze’ hypotheses would suggest,” reads the ESRI report.