"There is a troubling trend that researchers have identified again and again – low-income parents, especially single mothers, have higher rates of depression and depressive symptoms than their higher-income counterparts. A new Child Trends’ study found that more than half of a group of low-income mothers in Maryland felt down, depressed, or hopeless in the past year and almost a third had those feelings combined with a lack of interest or pleasure in doing things....
"Depression and poverty is not only a troubling combination for parents, but research has shown that children can get caught in the web of parental depression as well...."
http://www.childtrends.org/a-troubling-combination-depression-poverty-and-parenting/
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