The UK and the US are the worst parents in the world: Discuss.

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Did I miss a thread? The UK and the US are bottom of the table as far as this report is concerned.
http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail.asp?news_id=890
The press are all over it (or were yesterday) but the response to it seems...er...confused at best. Sort it out for me, please.

― ned trifle XIV (ned trifle XIV), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

it doesn't say that, i don't think.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"The report for the first time measures and compares overall child well-being across six dimensions: material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people’s own subjective sense of their own well-being."

!= parenting skills

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

My favourite stat from all that is that Portugal is the international capital of bullying. Go Portugal.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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No - I know it doesn't say that - that's just how it's being reported in some quarters - in others it's all the fault of the government. In the BBC Have Your Say (i know - why do I read it...) it political correctness and The Gays.

I'm not really sure what it's saying (and I've actually read most of the thing) - hence the question.

― ned trifle XIV (ned trifle XIV), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

not ilx? for shame.

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― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate St Clare taskforce to Lisbon to sort things out, stat.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Try being a bit more European and socialist
-- Tom D. (dadaismu...), February 14th, 2007.

― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e. I blame Thatcher

― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

european kids live at home till they're about 40. parents are too nice, if anything.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

One in three Italian men still live with their mother at the age of 30. lol freud.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

But at least they're happy!

― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Worst parents in the world y'say? Maybe here's where part of it comes from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6366255.stm

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

In the clip, a boy wearing a nappy was called a "wimp" for not hitting a girl back after she struck him in the face.

otm

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the US uses a somewhat broader definition of "live birth" than many countries, which inflates its infant mortality rate.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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