{"id":271033,"date":"2026-01-06T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:16:10","slug":"parents-of-ireland-survey-reveals-rising-concern-over-childrens-mental-health-cost-of-living-and-use-of-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271033\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Ireland Survey reveals rising concern over children\u2019s mental health, cost of living and use of mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Parents of Ireland Survey 2026 gathered responses from 1,878 parents of school-going children nationwide, offering a detailed snapshot of Irish family life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The wait times to access mental health services for children are &quot;worrying&quot;, say experts. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ee52f2cd-6754-494a-a4a6-df1eff323cf4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The wait times to access mental health services for children are &#8220;worrying&#8221;, say experts. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Almost a third of parents who responded to a new national survey say their child has needed mental health services such as counselling or psychiatric support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Children\u2019s mental health, young people\u2019s online presence, and the cost of parenting are among the main concerns highlighted in the Parents of Ireland Survey 2026, which was carried out by Schooldays.ie and gathered responses from almost 2,000 parents across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parents of Ireland Survey 2026 gathered responses from 1,878 parents of school-going children nationwide, offering a detailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[99378,18,135,19,17,23,167,502],"class_list":{"0":"post-271033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-latest-news-ticker","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-mentalhealth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115850470131178511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}