75% of those surveyed said that food shopping caused 'serious financial stress'
New research by the Women's Regional Consortium and Ulster University has found that the impact of the cost of living crisis is forcing mothers to skip meals and go hungry to feed their children.
The research shows that 91% of the 250 women who participated in this research reported difficulty in paying their bills due to price increases.27% of those women also said that they had anxiety about school costs which is likely to become an increasing pressure point for families over the summer period - as the cost of food remains high, there will be less income available to purchase required items.
Siobhán Harding from the Women’s Support Network said: “Women are at crisis point. Years of austerity measures, the Covid-19 pandemic and now the Cost-of-Living crisis has created a perfect storm for women who are left to become shock absorbers of poverty in their homes. "We are calling for the Holiday Hunger Scheme to be urgently reinstated and for the Healthy Start Scheme to be widely publicised to ensure women and children do not go hungry during the Summer months.”
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