Almost 40 per cent of parents said that they had approached a source outside the household for support regarding the upbringing of their children in 2001, compared to 22.6 per cent in 1997.
A report, based on new analyses of the 1997 and 2001 Northern Ireland Health and Social Wellbeing Surveys, revealed that women were more likely than men to report parenting problems.
Children's health was the greatest worry for parents, followed by progress in school.
The research was commissioned by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, and carried out by three academics within the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive, which is based at the Queen's University of Belfast.
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