The research analysed the prevalence of 10 family problems that pose a risk to child development across more than 18,000 families taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Researchers found that 28 per cent of families faced two or more of these 10 risk factors, which were living in overcrowded housing, being born to a teenage mother or having one or more parents affected by depression, a physical disability, low basic skills, substance misuse, excessive alcohol intake, financial stress, worklessness or domestic violence.
More than four in 10 children faced no risk factors in early childhood, and a further three in 10 faced only one.
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