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Children are 'less happy', more health conscious
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
24 April 2008
Only one in ten adults believe that children are happier now than when they were growing up, according to the fifth report from the Good Childhood Inquiry.
In a poll of 1,176 people carried out for the Children's Society's report, family breakdown (29 per cent) and peer pressure (23 per cent) were cited as the two most influential factors on children's well-being today, followed by bullying and celebrity culture (11 per cent). When asked about children's physical health, two-thirds of those surveyed thought that an increase in indoor activities, such as computer games and watching television, stopped children from being more active. Writing in the report's...
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