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Posted on | February 14, 2007
UNICEF ranks the US and the UK dead last among twenty-one industrialized nations in matters of child welfare:
Florence/Berlin- Issuing ratings on the well-being of children in affluent nations, UNICEF faulted the United States and Britain Wednesday, ranking them bottom among 21 industrialized countries. Typical of poor scorers were children who did not trust their friends, rarely spent time with parents and over-ate. Poverty among minorities and a lack of books in homes also dragged down scores.The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark topped the overall UNICEF league table, based on surveys among children and other data…
The report flunks the US and Britain, which are respectively in 20th and 21st position.
The two countries score particularly badly in the “Family and Peer Relationships” and the “Behaviours and Risks” categories.
For the first of these categories, 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds were asked questions such as if their friends were “kind and helpful” and how often they ate the main meal of the day with parents. Living in single-parent families and stepfamilies lowered the score.
Will we admit that we have problems, or will we continue to pretend that our lifestyles are the greatest in the world? What is it that we do wrong?
