Child-induced fatigue costs economy dear, says new study

Parents with young children are ‘substantially’ less productive than their colleagues, due to a lack of sleepAs every parent of a newborn knows, sleep is a foreign country, a place that they happily visited a long time ago but fear they may now never experience again. The constant disruption to sleep patterns posed by a screaming baby can play havoc with relationships, waistlines and sanity, but it’s also having a deleterious effect on the nation’s finances. Until now.In