To get around restrictions during the pandemic, 25.9% of parents were dishonest about their child’s health.
A new study found that about a quarter of parents lied about their child’s health status in order to get around restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.showed that 25.9% of parents surveyed had engaged in behaviors that misrepresented their child’s health in light of public health measures.
A new study claimed that about a quarter of parents lied about the status of their children’s health to get around pandemic restrictions.Getty Images According to the study, the most common behaviors that participants reported doing during the pandemic were “not telling someone who was with their child that they thought or knew their child had COVID-19” , and “allowing their child to break quarantine rules,” .
Other reasons included wanting their children to be able to live a “normal” life as they had before the pandemic, or if they had work commitments and other responsibilities that they could not skip.
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