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Prominent politicians should do more to protect mental health of their childrenaccording to leading historian, whose research exposed a lot of pressure faced those with parents in in government.

Professor Elizabeth Harren, Chairman in modern history in university of Leicester, found disturbing picture of mental health and wellbeing problems in children of politicians who were often associated with their parents’ work and the relentless attention that comes with public life.

“Political children need them private space, but few understand it chance in a social media era of Faster news headlines and online clickbait,” Hurren said. “Politicians know of in problem but they don’t want to discuss it.”

Will be presented at the British Science Festival. in Leicester on Tuesday, Harrens work draws on memoirs, media coverage and interview with increased-up children of policies to describe mental health problems a lot of struggle with. Despite the obvious privileges, some children develop difficult emotional problems after being pushed into public eye during their parents rollercoaster career and then when private family stories are told in memoirs.

harrens research for The British Academy acts as new prime ministerLise Truss and her cabinet – who collectively parent at least 47 children – take on formidable tasks of manage the country through the economic crisis, rebuild the National Health Service and navigate world changed by war in Ukraine.

According to Harren, Truss decision leave their daughters, Frances, 16, and Liberty, 13, out of in public eyes, and do not photograph them in front of No 10, guess what she thought hard about their private lives. “She protects their mental well-being,” Harren said. “Liz Truss seems to understand this fact of political life is better than many of its parliamentary colleagues who Was in denied or preferred to downplay cost of public office for politician’s child.

Trouble may start long before children are drawn in the spotlight. Carol Thatcher was sent to private school for girls in honor of her twin brother Mark, went off to boarding school. In Harren Carol’s report says she was sent away because she mother Margaret’s position was: “It didn’t make much sense in housekeeping for one child”.

Thatcher success left Carol feels like she’ll never get a grade, a report adds. quoted in research, she says: “No one ever know to me for be anyone but Margaret Thatcher’s daughter, so in the end of day, no matter what I do, never was good enough.”

A lot of children turn into silent actors, Harren found called for family photo ops, or making political points, such as when John Gummer, a conservative agrarian minister, fed his four-year-old daughter Cordelia beef burger during the mad cow crisis. ” children know how to smile for in camera but they are expected remain silent actors on in public stage,” she writes.

Teenage years are often the hardest, Harren. says. Politicians children can get hit at school, especially if they parents put forward unpopular policy, or become embroiled in scandals like affairs or offences. There are other risks at this age: Juan Blair was 16 years old when he was arrested. in Leicester Square for being “drunk and incapacitated”, while William Straw, son of in former home secretaryJack Straw was 17 years old when he was warned for selling cannabis after a nasty tabloid sting.

FROM social media one photo can make newsHurren says. ” news innings fast and once a story is out there he creates a narrative around you. You do not want that when you are a teenager, because it is hard shake off,” she is adds.

Difficulties children face not always clear to his politician parents. Blair told the Mirror in 2017 that he once commented on him children that “it wasn’t bad” for them, to which they replied: “No, you have no idea, we used to get a lot of stick.”

A little of the most serious problems arise when politicians spill private family stories in profitable memoirs soon after they leave officeHurren says. Since the 1970s, political memoirs have become more frankly and frankly with politicians rake in over family problems and discussing their children’s failures, setbacks and even diseases. Combined with politicians publish personal information on social media, children currently faced “double crap, she said.

“Being a politician’s child is a legacy and sometimes it doesn’t come. out until adulthood when they try build emotional relationship. They have learned to be so incomprehensible and not comment that they didn’t work out how they feel.” – Hurren says.

“We need to find solutions for problems these children are facing because these common lessons can help new politicians when they enter parliament”.

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