Opinion Poll Parent’s View of Stress

Parental Concerns over Child Welfare

Here are the results of a fairly exstensive survey of Parents of Califorina Bay Area Childern.

An Opinion Poll about youth in California

Over half of the parents see School itself as providing most of the stress and School related issues like peer relationships and activites second.

Almost one quarter see intra family issues both parental seperations and relationships within the family as being significant stress issues

Family Conflict

Parents of preteens are most likely to report that their child worries “somewhat” or “very much” about family conflict or divorce (31%), but even 13% of parents of young children (ages 3-5) report such worry. Overall, about one in four parents (24%) say their children worry "very much" or "somewhat" about family conflict. Single parents are far more likely to report that their children worry about family conflict (43%) than married parents (20%).

Depression

A large majority of parents (83%) say they are "not very" or "not at all" concerned that their child may be depressed. However, roughly 16% of parents are "somewhat" or "very" concerned, representing roughly 190,000 children ages 3-17 in the Bay Area.

The rate is higher for older childern as can be seen in the chart of the 14 -17 year olds.