UK ranks near bottom for child wellbeing and teenage happiness

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/uk-has-poor-ranking-for-child-wellbeing-and-teenage-happiness/

by tylerthe-theatre

27 comments

  1. Not surprising at all. The overall quality of life for genz and gena is racing backwards. By the time they graduate they will be £60k in debt to student loans, living with their parents until their mid 40’s and never having a family.

  3. Yeah, it’s almost as if successive governments have abandoned 50% of them and the new one thinks that showing them a television show will fix that.

  4. The old are eating the young. Look at how money for young people in the form of the Education budget, youth and community services, has been gutted over the last fifteen years, and money for the old, in terms of pensions and health spending has ballooned.

  5. I wonder if this has any correlation between adult well-being and happiness.

    If parents are struggling, this could filter down to children.

  6. They can’t vote so MPs will do nothing.

    Everything in the UK must be sacrificed for the sake of Boomers. Imagine if we spent a fraction of money on children as we did the Triple Lock, NHS and Care.

  7. No shit, how about some development over here, its like the country just gave up on upgrading in the early 2000’s, they love a shop or some jobs shit but how about things for kids to actually do outside of technology, how about we clear up the shit heads that toam the streets and get back to allowing kids to freely roam without worry of all these little gang youths trying to stab their way through life or all the migrants roaming the streets, or the absolute minefield school must be these days with multiculturalism and wokeness piled on top of each other, lets allow kids to be kids again and not have to worry about politics.
    Lets allow them a pathway through life, where they dont get to 20 and realise that owning a house isnt for everyone, especially if they grew up poor, its for middle class and up, and its for foreign people to buy up as many as they can and rent it back to you at extortionate prices, lets allow them to eat well considering their parents are struggling to pay all these increased bills probably at the expense of eating well and having things they need.

  8. It’s not just the cost of living either I’ve noticed for most teens including myself when I was a teen there just wasn’t enough to do. everything requires money or some sort of membership fee. The only thing they can do really is play football or go to a skate park but not everyone is in to that sort of stuff and even if they are it gets boring very quickly. And probably contributes to them causing trouble for fun.

  9. No surprise, we have no culture to bind families and communities in this country. We are also poor.

  10. The worst part is how hard it is to imagine anything improving before they become miserable adults.

  11. Shame they didn’t show the actual rankings list in the article. 60% high life satisfaction seems good to me. Rates of suicide have increased but not by a huge amount.
    Shame to hear about the bullying.

  12. Not surprising to me. Almost everything this country could do to make life better for young people is explained away as being unaffordable. If we tried to implement compulsory education today the first question politicians and the media would ask is “who is going to pay for it?”

    Sometimes it feels like economics has become an exercise in finding excuses not to do anything.

  13. What do you expect, they’ve nothing to look forward to in life.

    They ace school, just to get hit with debt and no graduate schemes and a dog fight for a decent job that’ll probably go to the previous year of graduate who are still struggling.

    Even with a great job, no way they’re going to be homeowners anytime soon so look forward to all their salary going on rent or saving it by living with their parents til they’re 30.

    Life’s bleak for the young.

  14. In the last ten years we have seen social media absolutely devour the brains of those older than us. 

    Honestly wouldn’t surprise me at this stage if we’re the ones that will lose the triple lock. 

  15. I’m not surprised, there was far more available to do for young people where I live 30 years ago than now. I’ve have a friend in Austria and I almost cried when she told me she has done two degrees there for free.

  16. They are caught in a crossfire between the old money and the new wave grooming gangs

  17. With people having fewer children however, it’s likely that Gen Alpha will at least stand a better chance of inheriting something meaningful.

    I have one child and he’s getting everything including the house when I go.

  18. I work with quite a few teenagers and early 20s and almost all of them have a lot more anxiety in life and do not socialise face to face nearly as much as I did (millennial). It’s definitely a problem that’s getting worse.

  19. Sorry, bottom OF THE WORLD??? That is the biggest bs. More like bottom out of the 5 countries measured…

  20. Both parents working full time, children rarely spend time with them. Grow up seeing only stressed out adults. Why would you grow up “happy” if that is all you have to look forward to.

  21. Unicef report is highly statistical comparative 2018 vs 2022 and range ranked ie Chile vs UK vs Korea vs Turkey etc.

    I don’t believe other than very broad changes and trends and contrasts in data the report achieves any significant concrete proposals for solutions specific to the problems per nation.

    Of the 8 measures about 3-4 seem ephemeral to a core model of what makes children’s self development higher quality. 3 or so measures do identify core model parameters, to list:

    * PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT = More emphasis on physical well-being, fitness, health, self-practice, focus, enjoyment is required in young people to develop optimal bodies including vital core practice of high quality nutrition and daily routines of activity, nutrition and high quality sleep basics.

    * EMOTIONAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT = Core policy on Family Quality and Integrity is at the heart of ALL POLICY solutions to children‘s welfare. If UNICEF cannot cite this it is borderline useless. Massive society focus needs to change to optimize this area of cresting this milieu for the minds of children grow up immersed within. Family, Home, Community, School as network of this hub even, broader connection of locality with schools. Greater input by more trained adults.

    * MENTAL DEVELOPMENT = School curriculum needs changing from excessive academic focus only. A lot of the content is not felt to be useful of valuable and this needs to be assessed for fitness for the stage of development of each child. A broader range of development of mental aptitude is needed.

    The problem is so large and so encompassing vs the current model of society an economic machine like system that it is doubtful at national scale in the UK real change can be made. At smaller scales involving specific groups it seems more amenable to positive change.

  22. The country does nothing for its young people and expects everything from them.

    This is no surprise whatsoever.

  25. It’s almost like people don’t thrive in a dog eat dog society when they’re the underdog.

    Surprise surprise.

  27. This doesn’t surprise; the schools start teaching negative emotions from Year 1 currently and don’t put any emphasis on positive emotions. Children are repeatedly encouraged to talk about what is bothering them, what is worrying them, if they have problems at home, with bullies, what makes them sad.

    In an attempt to child safeguard they have overly mature mental health themes thrust upon them encouraging a negative mindset when they should just be able to be children and not questioning their mental state.

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