{"id":88286,"date":"2026-04-26T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88286"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:56:30","slug":"young-carers-face-higher-risks-of-depression-anxiety-and-lost-futures-and-most-receive-no-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/young-carers-face-higher-risks-of-depression-anxiety-and-lost-futures-and-most-receive-no-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Young carers face higher risks of depression, anxiety and lost futures \u2013 and most receive no support"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JJV5z.img?w=496&amp;h=279&amp;m=6&amp;x=181&amp;y=23&amp;s=174&amp;d=160\" alt=\"Around 12% of teens are unpaid carers and it's harming their prospects. Daisy Daisy\/Shutterstock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In developed countries,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-4601\/21\/5\/621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">around 12% of young people<\/a> provide regular, unpaid care for a family member.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/young-carers-face-higher-risks-of-depression-anxiety-and-lost-futures-and-most-receive-no-support\/ar-AA1JJJhB?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69edcc22b0144bcda322c2a84d480525&amp;ei=135\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In developed countries,\u00a0around 12% of young people provide regular, unpaid care for a family member.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-social-care"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/young-carers.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88287,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88286\/revisions\/88287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}