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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
There has beeen a study published today that reckons that 9% of the children in this country are unhappy.
This study looked at children between the ages of 8 and 15....it asked a variety of questions to determine the 'well-being' factor of children.
Who pays to commission these studies?
Do they do any real good ?
Are they relevant?
In my view this survey has looked at the negaitve side of the coin......9% are unhappy....which must mean that 91% are happy.
Yet they are concentrating on the minority...telling parents that they should involve children in family decisions.....and giving other bits of totally useless advice(like give them spending money, buy them branded trainers....you get the idea....materialistic stuff...which begs the question as to what children were asked in the survey)
Maybe we should send this 9% to the slums of India, Somalia, or some other third world country where children don't have TV in their bedroom(they might not even have a bedroom) where the children don't have laptops, ipods etc, where the children get no schooling and may not even get enough to eat.
Do children today have anything to be really unhappy about?
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I think you might all be missing the point, in our day we were all in the same boat and knew what our expectations were even though we knew that we could change our lot and move forward. They were good times. The 9% of children mentioned here are generally excluded from society with a history of families living on benefits and no idea of their potential and no ambition or hope for the future. Equally these 9% most likely don't have TV in their bedroom(they might not even have a bedroom) where the children don't have laptops, ipods etc, where the children get no schooling and may not even get enough to eat. They live in a self perpetuating system of no hope.
It's all relative and what's going on in third world countries should not be relative to our young people. Our young people should have ample opportunity to progress themselves but unfortunately their life chances and opportunities are limited by their family situations which is not assisted by the public's perceptions.
Not all young people have caring and happy families, whether well off or poor. You can be poor with good prospects or poor and hopeless.