A recent survey in the US revealed that parental fears have changed over the past decade.

Previously, parents' primary concerns were about children’s physical safety but today worries about their mental health have superseded these.

Some 75% of parents surveyed said they mainly worried their children would struggle with anxiety or depression, or would experience bullying.

Colman Noctor is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist, a mental health lecturer at SETU, an author and a media columnist and he says this survey got him thinking as to whether being a parent now is more challenging that in previous generations.

He discussed this with Maria McCann on Deise Today this morning (Wednesday).

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