UN puts UK bottom of 21 advanced nations

 

Children growing up in the United Kingdom suffer greater deprivation, worse relationships with their parents and are exposed to more risks from alcohol, drugs and unsafe sex than those in any other wealthy country in the world, according to a study from the United Nations.
The UK is bottom of the league of 21 economically advanced countries according to a “report card”‘ put together by Unicef on the wellbeing of children and adolescents, trailing the United States which comes second to last…

The Unicef team assessed the treatment of children in six different areas – material wellbeing; health and safety; educational wellbeing, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks; and the young people’s own perceptions of their wellbeing….

Some of the most shocking findings concern the relationships children and adolescents have with their family and peers. The UK is bottom of the 21 countries…

The report presents a sad picture of relationships with friends, which are so important to children. Not much more than 40% of the UK’s 11, 13 and 15-year-olds find their peers “kind and helpful”, which is the worst score of all the developed countries…

The UK takes bottom place “by a considerable distance” for the number of young people who smoke, abuse drink and drugs, engage in risky sex and become pregnant at too early an age. For 16 out of 17 OECD countries with the data, between 15% and 28% of young people have had sex by the age of 15. For the UK, the figure is 40%.

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