Busy parents risk damaging their children’s health by “not being there” and not getting to know them as well as they should. The results of a unique study of Irish children is set to reveal that many feel their parents are too often absent, and that the lack of quality time is also having a negative impact on their health.
As families return to the familiar routine following the summer break, the report will concern busy parents struggling to juggle work and family life.
But the study, which will feed into the National Obesity Policy, also raises a series of points about how schools could do more to improve children’s health. It identifies a series of factors which are key to the well-being of children in modern-day Ireland: from body image to bullying.
A team from University College Cork has been working on the project with the Citizens Participation Unit of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. For the full article click here
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