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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
These are your criteria for what you consider makes a happy childhood.
They are [I]not the criteria of the children who were surveyed.
I don't think there has ever been a level playing field when it comes to a childs peers. I know that when I was growing up there were poor children in our school(of which I was one)...but equally there were children whose parents were comfortably off....and some were clearly very well off.
It is just that our mindsets and attitudes were different.
Where true poverty exists, is where there is no responsible adult toensure basic needs are met[
Some people have children when it clear that they are not capable of caring for themselves....and having worked in an NHS setting, I know this to be true from personal experience.
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Margaret, I think we might be saying the same thing in a different way - it's really about responsible parenting which unfortunately some people are not capable of. A responsible parent would ensure the child's welfare needs were met, as you said some adults are incapable of meeting their own needs (or are more concerned for their own needs than those of their children).
And the list I gave previously whilst being my own criteria for what makes a child happy are also in the main considered to be a base for adequate parenting.