Parenting advocate says family pressures are a 'policy failure' – video

Parenting advocate Georgie Dent says parents are struggling with pressures created by systems 'designed for another era'. Speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Dent said parents could not 'meditate their way out of a childcare desert' or 'meal prep' their way out of housing stress. Dent says the challenges faced by 'millions of families' are not a personal failure but a 'policy failure' with profound economic and social consequences

• It costs nearly $37,000 a year to raise two children in Australia, research shows