"Placing unrealistic, demanding, and very-hard-to-fulfil expectations on children can negatively impact on their mental well-being."

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"Placing unrealistic, demanding, and very-hard-to-fulfil expectations on children can negatively impact on their mental well-being."
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Is the phrase very-hard-to-fulfil grammatical, correct, and acceptable? I have no idea whether this is allowed in English.
 

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Whether it's acceptable depends on the register of the text it's intended for.

It's quite obvious what you're trying to do and why but I don't like it. There's no need to turn a perfectly normal adjective phrase into what is in my judgement an inelegant and ungainly compound. I think the sentence reads just as well without the hyphenation.
 
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