How parents find parenting
Parenting challenges
Parenting can be tough – and is much harder if you’ re living in poverty.
One in three parents find parenting hard, but this drops to one in four of parents with household incomes over £ 100,000.
On the flip side, 45 % of parents with household incomes over £ 100,000 say that parenting is easy, a figure that drops to 30 % for parents on lower incomes.
Parents of four-year-olds are most likely to find parenting difficult, while parents of 11-yearolds are least likely to say parenting is difficult.
Being a parent
How easy or difficult do you find being a parent?
Very difficult 7 %
Fairly difficult 27 %
34 % find it difficult
Neither easy nor difficult 33 %
Fairly easy 26 %
Very easy 7 %
33 % find it easy
Sample: 5,866 parents in England( 3,391), Scotland( 1,309), Wales( 865) and Northern Ireland( 301) who have at least one child aged 4 to 18 in school. Base: All UK parents, weighted
Mums are more likely to find parenting difficult than dads( 37 % vs 30 %)
3.7 million parents find parenting difficult
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