Table 1 Risk factors for poor parenting

1. single parenthood

2. little support from spouse

3. little network support

4. relational problems

5. partner with mental health problems

6. children with poor health/handicaps/difficult temperament

7. changes in family structure/housing

8. two or more life events in the past two years

9. housing problems

10. poverty or debts

11. parents having been abused as a child

12. severe psychiatric symptoms

13. low compliance with psychiatric treatment

14. impulse control problems

15. alcohol or drug problems

16. low intelligence