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MOTHERS LIVING IN inadequate housing and poorer quality neighbourhoods have reported more depression, find parenting more stressful, and suffer from greater levels of conflict with their children, a new ESRI report has found.
The report uses data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study, from families of children born in 2008.
The children of the mothers surveyed that suffered from these issues are reported to face greater social and emotional difficulties at the age of nine.
The report states that this is due to the impact of inadequate housing on their mothers’ wellbeing directly impacts their children’s wellbeing.
The ESRI report defines “inadequate housing” as including damp conditions, lack of heating or inadequate size. “Poorer quality neighbourhoods” refer to areas with more disorder and fewer social supports.
Mothers affected by these issues often have a more hostile parenting style, find parenting more stressful, and report poorer quality relationships with their partner. Mothers who spend more time in privately rented homes, compared to an owned home, report similar issues, as well as depressive symptoms.
Neighbourhood quality is also strongly linked to mothers’ wellbeing.
Lead author of the report, Dr James Laurence, said that making housing quality a key part of new builds across Ireland, and improving conditions of existing housing, will lead to long-term benefits for families.
“Poorer quality housing and neighbourhoods appear to put significant strain on parents’ social and emotional wellbeing, with worrying implications for the wellbeing of their children,” he said.
While much of the debate in Ireland has focused on supply, this report shows how the quality of housing and the communities in which people live are also critical for families’ wellbeing”
The report found that income is the main driver of housing and neighbourhood quality. Low-income families are more likely to live in homes which are unsuitable, to struggle to heat their homes and to live in areas that may be susceptible to greater levels of disorder.
Lone-parent families and families in which parents have a disability are also experiencing poorer quality housing, with this being put down to an exclusion from working. Similarly, families in which a child has a disability are more likely to be in unsuitable homes and poorer quality neighbourhoods.
The ESRI report stated that some migrant-origin families, even taking account of their income levels, are more likely to experience inadequate housing.
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Interesting article, sad case.
How times change. Nowadays he would told the tough upbringing story and been out in six or seven years. Said he was drunk and he could of been out even sooner.
We should execute more and lock up more for longer.
Lock up yes execute no.
Execution is barbaric and until recently most people were executed for petty crimes.
And what would have happened to the Birmingham Six if execution was legal. Too many miscarriages of justice still happen.
But they only had their whole lives upended, brutalised by the system and lost 20 years of their lives. So that’s alright then.
An 84 year old living alone in 1927…. Wow… that’s got to be like a 110 years adjusted for changes in healthcare etc.It’s always a tragedy when someone is killed but there seems to be an extra poignancy when they’re very young or very old.
@Paddy Ryan,
80 and 90 year old’s were quite common in those times. It’s infant mortality that brings down the average life expectancy, if you made out of childhood you had a reasonable chance of growing to old age.
@Eamon, It wasnt just about infant mortality. People did on the whole die a lot younger for various reasons. There would be a lot more people living to old age in this day and age..
Eamon is correct – lots of people lived into their 80s or 90s. Infant mortality does bring the average down. Even as far back as medieval times lots of people lived into old age, it’s just that lots more people died in childhood back then.
@arnie. And on the battlefield.
““hanging is entirely too mild for such a savage” sounds pretty much like many many comments found on the Journal. You can’t stop progress…
It’s great that we have mindful moralist like yourself to remind us all of our place
“Moralists” usually have no issues with hanging another human being in the name of their morality…
Moralists infer that the masses are lacking their virtue.
Therefore, they think they have the right to hang the masses that are lacking their virtue. You get it?
It may be from times past but it still happens in rural Ireland. There’s a case to be had for capital punishment
No there isn’t. It’s barbaric and doesn’t work as a deterrent. Killing people is wrong. End of.
I wonder whether it would have deterred that woman’s murderer if he had been able to read about other hangings for the crime of murder?
Human beings have Human rights in this day and age.
Any country that executes stoops to the level of the killers themselves.
Belarus is the only country in all of Europe, including Russia, that still actively has the death penalty written into its’ laws.
Are people seriously suggesting we apply a similar level of morals here because murders and brutal murders occur?
People might feel like such people deserve to die and brutally, but it’s not the job of the State to be cruel and vicious. The potential for miscarriage of justice is also huge. The Irish Free State did execute at least 2 innocent men afaik.
What about child rapes and murders? Or conspiracy to blow up an airplane. Certain things for fit rights
Emily – the crimes are disgusting, but killing people is wrong. Someone has to hold the higher moral ground, the state must protect its citizens not seek vengeance, no matter how much we might want it.
Look at Saudi, Egypt, Iran etc. Look at the USA. Is that a crime free country because they lock people up for decades and have the death penalty?
If you are putting a picture of a building in your article then you should also name the building.
Which building are you wanting to know
The picture of the courthouse
Yeah, the Journal are pretty bad for this. If you follow the link to the NLI that they have, you’ll see that it’s that old building on Green Street, near Capel Street.
Green street courthouse
Thanks lads
Also left wondering where execution was carried out, Mountjoy presumably.
Yea there 29 unmarked graves in mount joy he buried there. One of the 29 have been provin innocent late last year. Look up a book called hanged for murder the 29 cases are in it
Sure can we not blame the British
As is more usually the case, David.
‘Had went to a wake’????
Be thankful it wasn’t ‘of went’
$cum executed this man
He’d probably get 4 years today
Hmm – not sure it’s that simple – although there doesn’t seem to have been a lot of evidence. I’m glad we live in a time where we are more humane.
Well, if the marauding gangs who travel rural Ireland with seeming impunity terrorising old people and carrying out aggravated burglaries, in many cases causing death directly or indirectly, were to face ‘Old Sparky’, I would be in favour of it. Conventional policing isn’t working for us.
What’s the fine looking building in the second photo? A mill? A convent? Interested to know
An English army barracks
He got what he deserved
Really ?
He probably did do it.
What makes you think that
So no allowances made for mental health issues there !!Wouldn’t like seeing the death penalty being brought back ,as it dehumanised everyone ,and says it’s OK for the state to kill.So how can it be OK for one group to take lives and not another ?
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