The charity's National Mentoring Initiative polled 2,006 adults and found only 20 per cent thought that children have appropriate adults to look up to.
Almost three in 10 respondents (28 per cent) said their most important influence when growing up was their father, but only 14 per cent thought children felt the same way now. More than three in 10 (32 per cent) said their most important influence was their mother, and around the same number said this was true of children today.
When asked to rate celebrity role models, David Beckham was cited as a good or very good role model by 54 per cent, Cheryl Cole by 40 per cent and David Cameron by 34 per cent.
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