"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.
 
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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