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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

 

It Sucks To Be a British Child

By VictorM: Hey, don't look at me funny, I'm not making this up. A Unicef report placed the UK last in the survey of 21 nations, which included Europe as well as the United States, Canada and Japan. These are just some highlights (lowlights?) of the report: they are at the bottom of a table examining the physical and emotional well-being of youngsters in the world's wealthiest nations. Despite living in the fifth richest country, they experience some of the worst levels of poverty. They regard themselves as less happy, and that they drank more alcohol, took more drugs, and had more underage sex than children overseas. They were also more prone to failure at school, to experience violence and bullying while suffering a greater number of unhappy relationships with both their families and peers. Maybe this explains why Wayne Rooney is so damn cranky.

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