Children’s aggression major worry for parents

A hotline for distressed parents has revealed that the most frequent reason for people contacting its services is anger and aggression from their children.

The figures from Parentline, based on approximately 3,000 calls dealt with during the course of the year, found that anger/aggression towards parents was by far the most common reason for making a call, ahead of teenage issues, stress and child abusing parents.

Women were responsible for 83% of the calls received while in 44% of cases, the children referenced in the calls were aged 12 to 18 years old.