11.   Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.

12.   The euphoria that new parents feel quickly changes to exhaustion.

13.   The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies.

14.   The therapist should explain fully why certain areas of questioning are being broached so that parents feel part of the assessment procedure.

15.   Young, single parents often feel isolated and unhappy.

16.   Parents today often feel their children should be cushioned from the outside world.

17.   Staff at the hospital accept that if parents felt pressured into treating their own children on the wards then they something should be done.

18.   I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing, unless their circumstances were very similar.

19.   An undercurrent of parental regret runs through the conversations of some teen-agers whose parents feel they have somehow missed the boom.