Improved childcare and more positive attitudes towards working mothers have helped boost the number of women in paid jobs, but many parents still suffer 'role strain' in their efforts to balance work and family life.
That is one of the key findings of a report published by the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI) which provides a detailed analysis of how the shape of family life has changed over the past ten years, the main achievements in developing family-friendly policies and the principal obstacles to further progress.
UK Family Trends 1994-2004, compiled by NFPI research fellow Helen Barrett, draws on a broad range of contemporary research and marks the tenth anniversary of the United Nations' International Year of the Family.
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