Unemployed Fathers in UK / Go to work or risk damaging your child’s self-esteem

Children risk being ‘damaged’ if their fathers are unemployed as they lose a role model, a Government report has claimed. 

In a report to health professionals, officials have warned that children lose a role model when their fathers are unemployed, and it affects their happiness and well-being.

The Department of Health report found that children need a stable figure who goes to work and provides for them.

It claimed that unemployment and a dependency on benefits erodes children’s self-esteem – and can affect them years after their fathers’ find jobs.

The report said: ‘there is evidence that unemployment of a parent may cause a child to have lower levels of well-being in the longer term’, The Times reported.

In a report to health professionals, officials have warned that children lose a role model when their fathers are unemployed

‘If a child’s father is unemployed , even if the father is re-employed, in future years, this may adversely affect a child’s happiness and self-esteem.’

A record number of cash-strapped older women have been forced back into work by the rising cost of living, a study has found.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Go to work or risk damaging your child’s self-esteem: Jobless fathers warned that unemployment saddens their children | Mail Online.