Budget Cuts Hurt Low Income Mothers, Already at Risk for Depression
September 1st, 2010
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is trying to raise awareness of the dire consequences that mental health care budget cuts will have on low income mothers and their children. Statistically, women are already twice as prone to depression as are men. Ten and fifteen percent of pregnant and postpartum mothers, respectively, experience depression. And poverty increases the risk of depression across the board. With those staggering figures, NAMI estimates that more than half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers who struggle with depression. These families already have less access to counseling, therapy, and other forms of psychological and emotional support. Cutting mental health budgets at the state, federal, and local levels only decreases these mothers’ ability to a therapist and get help.
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…and I thought the worst of the recession was behind us.Its really sad that there are still budgetary cuts for areas that actually require all the care that they could get :|
Budget cuts always seem to hurt those who need the help the most. Makes very little sense to me that these are the people that we supposedly want to help yet when anything gets slashed they are the ones that we think of as “dispensable”.
yeah,go ahead and bail out large corporations with billions but put poor people at a risk…that’s what we are good at,aren’t we?!
lets start off something by which we can all contribute something and a programme can be rolled out to help people in such situations. people not being able to afford health care really brings a tear to my eye. I have been in that situation in the past myself and I just pray that no one else has to go through the same. I hope lots of people come forward to help these people.
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