According to a new United Nations, the UK has the unhappiest, poorest and most neglected children of the world's 21 richest nations. What do, you make of it?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14022007/140/uk-worst-place-child-welfare.html
2007-02-13 20:59:32 · 14 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
If you take time to talk to the children you will find the many are concerned about all the issues of the day. Many are quite frightened, no surprise with the constant negativity we get from the media. The poverty I think is the lack of places for young people to go, they hang about the streets, (kids need to be with their peer group) not all parents can afford to send the children to expensive activities. I don't trust the government I feel they want an underclass to use for war fodder.
2007-02-17 23:41:23 · answer #1 · answered by DS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Child again? - Yes. Growing up here? - No! But then, this nanny state is all these kids have known. My kids laugh at me when I tell them about the trauma of Lead painted cots and sweets that were designed to look like pouches of tobacco. Blimey! How am I STILL ALIVE! When I was a kid, we would often have the 'poor' kids round our house. My mum would cook for eighteen or more on a Sunday and we were not rich ourselves. But we scraped it from somewhere to help others. It is too frightening to invite people into your home now. You could get accused of all sorts and it's awful when you don't even know what law you could be breaking! There are so many things to catch you out now, it's probably illegal to cook for eighteen people on a Sunday! - Probably classed as 'Unlawful Gathering of people likely to fight over a chicken'.
These kids are no longer looked after by communities. This nanny state has fractured us all...
2007-02-14 05:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believable :
children need parent's time and attention - not impossible, BUT, housing/food etc cost a lot and usually one or both parents have to work long hours in order to afford these necessities. It's a really tricky one, but when you work you tend to buy gifts that make the parent feel less guilty about not giving the only true thing that the child needs - time and attention. We are a materialistic nation and yes the children are suffering - BUT - mine won't
2007-02-19 06:21:48 · answer #3 · answered by Awl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in my case its a bit too late to be thinking "would I like to be a child growing up in Britain"... However, I am thinking now, "Do I want my children to grow up in Britain". This survey has a very scary effect I have to admit. But I trust that when the time comes, we'll be responsible parents and will raise our children in a way that will prevent them from falling into any of the categories listed by the survey...
2007-02-14 05:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by Behind Blue Eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would love to relive my youth growing up in the UK again.
I was a happy, much loved child, with all the freedom i wanted and im only just 22, so it wasnt that long ago.
Like any other country there's bad parts, poor parts etc etc, but show me a country in the world that doesn't??
Also growing up here in Britain gave me opportunities and choices, that I made not have been able to have, should I have been raised somewhere less democratic!
2007-02-14 05:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by hotchannybo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a great place to grow up BUT not as much as some other countries. The cost of living in Britain (house price, tax, utilities etc) mean that responsible well meaning members of society often can't afford more than two kids. Thus the young population is propped up scroungers, ill educated people who are looking for a bigger council house and someone to look after them when they inevitably become sick. Coupled with a lack of discipline at home and school and PC gone mad, it ain't the best place to be growing up in.
Also I watched Newsnight last night and the Dutch kids spoke more clearly in English than our own.
Sigh.
2007-02-14 05:09:13 · answer #6 · answered by DDT 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it makes appalling reading and i wonder if the parents of the children referred to should take a fair part of the blame the UN report seem to suggest that!! so if that is so how has it gone wrong it wasn't like that many years ago when i was growing up and we had nothing compared to what the young people have now but there wasn't any kind of a report likely to assimilate that one just published
2007-02-18 16:06:44 · answer #7 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not if i became like a lot of kids today, they get given everything they want, yet they are still a miserable, sullen looking bunch.
I think there is to much adult interference in childrens lives, just leave them alone, they are going to become weak specimens in the future - afraid of their own shadows they way they are mollycoddled now.
2007-02-14 07:41:16 · answer #8 · answered by thunor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering I grew up in Britain YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS! My Parents are brilliant and I wouldn't switch them for the world and even though we're not that rich we're happy enough!
2007-02-18 13:57:23 · answer #9 · answered by shini401 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
British children are Brats - there should be no reason to be unhappy when you get everything you want - a new video game, protection from parental abuse by Law, and oodles of pocket money.
If given a chance, I would be born as a child in britain anytime.
2007-02-14 05:03:19 · answer #10 · answered by kinsha j 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋