So, our adolescents are the most depressed, unloved, pissed and promiscuous in the developed world which rather begs the question: what kind of development have we developed? One where values translate into BOGOF offers, where parents are too busy earning money to nurture their children, where friendship doesn’t always mean kindness, and where role models are get-rich-quick sellebrities.
Poverty is about more than money. For children not to feel loved and nurtured is an egregious impoverishment of their very humanity. Love will get you through the night; a pair of Jimmy Choos won’t.
Let me finish this sermonising with a letter published in the Guardian that suggests the malaise is even more widespread: ‘”British children: poorer, at greater risk and more insecure”. Only the children?’
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