| Abstract: | Discusses some secondary effects of unemployment, including the absence of health benefits at a time when family members are undergoing severe stress, poor nutrition in adults and children that also causes a rise in the infant mortality rate, decrease in parent nurturance of children coupled with an increase in child abuse, increased alcoholism and drug abuse, and erosion of the social service network. These problems are discussed as they pertain to the state of Michigan and its high percentage of unemployed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
