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This included 1,000 families raising disabled children and 1,000 families raising non-disabled children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families raising disabled children were surveyed by Family Fund, and families raising non-disabled children were surveyed by OnePoll, in January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key findings:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>46% of parents without disabled children are not familiar with the challenges that wider families experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Families raising disabled children spend, on average, an extra &pound;66 per month on food for their household. On average, they also spend an extra &pound;30 per month on household energy bills, compared to families without disabled children.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parents with disabled children agree mealtimes together are important (63%). Half of these parents would like to eat more meals together as a family. Half believe it helps with family communication. But it can be a challenge and take almost twice as long to get everyone together to eat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than a quarter of families with disabled children say they never feel able to entertain their friends for meals at their house. Dining out can be challenging: Parents with non-disabled children dine out with their family twice as much.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>74% of families with siblings of disabled children, say their non-disabled children get to spend less quality time with them. Almost half of families (47%) say their non-disabled children take on caring responsibilities for their siblings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>77% of parents with disabled children believe it&rsquo;s important to have holidays and breaks as a family. Yet, they are more than twice as likely to report feeling &lsquo;overwhelmed&rsquo;, &lsquo;stressed&rsquo; and &lsquo;emotional&rsquo; about getting away. During a typical year they go on half the number of UK holidays as families without disabled children.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When it comes to day trips, families with a disabled child go on three a year, while the average family goes on five.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A large percentage of families (80%) say that having a disabled or seriously ill child has taught them a lot as an individual. Four in five do all they can to ensure their youngster has the same opportunities as other kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n    \n\n<p class=\"file\">\n            <a class=\"file__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Raising-Kids-Accessible.pdf\" download=\"Raising-Kids-Accessible.pdf\">Open and read the raising kids research report (3MB pdf)<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our partnership with McCain, we did \u2018raising kids\u2019 research to better understand the challenges families raising disabled children face compared with families raising non-disabled children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2989,"parent":662,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_mixd_wp_review_post_reminders":[],"_mixd_wp_review_date":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-918","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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