More than a million parents are suffering the torture of sleep deprivation inflicted by young children.
Researchers at the Bristol Institute of Child Health found that two-thirds of parents with babies between six- and 18-months old are woken regularly.
Many parents were woken up to eight times a night by their babies.
The result was enormous stress on marriages and work.
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