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    Bridget Phillipson: “Non sappiamo perché i bambini britannici siano tra i più infelici”

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    2. urbanspaceman85 on

      Decades of austerity and a generation of unrelenting global chaos might have something to do with it.

    3. Miss_Andry101 on

      A third of our children live in poverty. Are we really struggling to figure out what the issue may be?

    4. coffeewalnut08 on

      I blame the high levels of child poverty.

      If you’re a child in Britain and especially England, you’re the likeliest group of people to be poor.

      Even more so than adults and pensioners.

      It doesn’t help that whenever news about removal of the two-child benefit cap gets published, the comments are flooded with awful rhetoric about deprived families.

      A lot of voters seem worryingly accepting of child poverty, which I frankly find shameful.

      No other serious country behaves like this about their children. The most vulnerable and voiceless in our society should NOT be its poorest.

    5. ghazwozza on

      ITT: people giving the first idea that came into their head, as if it had not occurred to anyone in government.

      People in this country have reasons to be unhappy. People in other countries have reasons to be unhappy. Why are British children among the unhappiest? Can any of you say with confidence you know *all* the reasons?

    6. No_Estimate_678 on

      What’s not mentioned in the article is the fact that, these days, you’re struggling by default (a lot of the time) if you’re not a dual income family. That pushes parents to push kids towards screens and less-than-enriching generic after school clubs etc because if you don’t bloody work, you’re screwed – for the basics, let alone the special little extras.

      Loads of kids got shoved in front of screens during COVID because there was no other option, and as the cost of everything increases, seemingly relentlessly, the pressure to earn only compounds. Consequently lots of kids miss out on day-to-day time with their parents. It’s systemic, sad, and, while she sounds nice enough, nothing Phillipson says in that article addresses this core issue.

    7. Fun-Mammoths on

      Parents stressed to the max. Both parents working full time. Being put into breakfast clubs and after school clubs meaning less time at home with parents. Hmmmmmm I wonder…..

    8. Fun-Mammoths on

      In the words of Principle Skinner: ‘am I out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.’

    9. Longjumping-Cod-6164 on

      I mean, politics aside, have you seen the place? Britain in and of itself is a depressing eyesore of a country just by aesthetics alone. Rows and rows of cramped terraced houses on ugly little streets, only distinguishable by landmarks such as ‘the abandoned house with the broken windows’ or ‘the street with the burnt out car’. A decaying and flea-ridden brown couch in someone’s front yard is almost guaranteed. Decrepit town centres, one half abandoned the other half made up of charity, vape, and phone repair shops. No ball game signs everywhere and any greenery either ripped up for development (that may or may not happen) or completely neglected by the council so kids can’t play outside anywhere lest they got lost in the 6ft tall weeds that have been left to grow. Playgrounds are hangouts for intimidating teens who have nowhere else to go due to lack of investment in young people, and are often littered with drug paraphernalia owing to poverty and general societal breakdown.

      The country itself is lacking warmth and hope. Some streets are the definition of despair and poverty. No wonder kids are unhappy when this is what we grow up in. Obviously there are nice parts but a not insignificant number live as per my description and it does wear you down. Even as a kid, living in such places myself, I remember hating certain parts of town and I didn’t know why. I look back now and realise it was because they brought my mood down. A lot of Britain feels depressing and you notice it as a kid even if you don’t have the vocabulary yet to explain it.

      And that’s before you get into the many, many problems this country has that children and their parents face every single day.

    10. Ok_Impact9745 on

      Maybe it’s just the fact we have made everything a commodity. Be it our homes, our utilities, our food etc. everything is a commodity and it’s all controlled by big corporations.

      Other countries are much poorer than the UK but won’t have everything controlled by corporations and not everything is about profit or greed.

      Not that this directly affects children’s happiness as they aren’t the ones paying bills or buying groceries etc but it has a knock on effect.

      It also fosters this culture where everything is about wealth and if it doesn’t generate a profit then it’s not worthwhile which means we have a lack of community resources who struggle to operate because they aren’t generating enough income to stay open.

      We are not a poor nation but we are a nation that has allowed the corporations to control every aspect of our lives. Other poorer nations will have a much greater community spirit and more of a reliance on working together to help one another rather than an over reliance on corporations. They will be happier than us despite the fact they are poorer

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