Raising a child with a disability causes more daily stress and long-range health problems than parenting a child without disabilities, U.S. researchers say.
Stress and health ills were greater among parents of disabled children, U.S. researchers found.
The study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found parents who had children with disabilities — that included attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder — reported having at least one stressor on 50 percent of the study days compared with 40 percent among other parents.