ESRI: Stress of recession damaging to families

The trickle-down effect of a recession on children can mean poorer quality relationships with their mums and dads, particularly where parents feel the mental strain of trying to make ends meet.

A report, published today, on the lives of children who were three-years-old at the height of the great recession, found considerable variation in the extent to which families experienced changes in their economic circumstances from 2008 to 2011.