What gives mothers or fathers strength in difficult times? A research institute surveyed 1,049 people with children online.
Hamburg – In difficult times, according to a recent survey, it is above all one’s own children who give parents strength. Accordingly, with 79 percent of those surveyed, a large majority stated that young people were the most important source of energy.
In second place is the partner (62 percent), followed by the social environment (52 percent), according to the survey by the magazine “Eltern” and the research institute mindline media. The participants were able to select several answer options for the questions.
In May of this year, 1,049 people nationwide with children aged 0 to 14 were interviewed online for the study. The survey is intended to examine how families deal with crises.
According to the results, many of the study participants are more worried than they were two or three years ago – wars or economic development, for example, led to uncertainty. However, this has also changed their attitude to life in a positive sense: 43 percent stated that they felt the cohesion in the family to be even more valuable than before. Multiple answers were also possible here. dpa
