{"id":2121,"date":"2015-08-21T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","slug":"children-happiness-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/08\/21\/children-happiness-and-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Children, happiness and well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0b0c0c;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">According to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenssociety.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/TheGoodChildhoodReport2015.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Good Childhood report 2015<\/span><\/a> published this week by the Children\u2019s Society, children in the UK are unhappy.\u00a0 The report\u00a0measures subjective well-being in a number of key areas including relationships with family and friends, school life, satisfaction with appearance, money and possessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0b0c0c;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Generally<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> it found that compared to other nations children \u2018in England have relatively low levels of satisfaction with four aspects of life \u2013 their relationships with teachers, their body, the way that they look, and their self-confidence\u2019. \u00a0Information on the methodology and sources used is provided on the website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For further data on children\u2019s lives worldwide: see the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sowc2015.unicef.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">UNICEF report state of the World\u2019s children.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> This has case studies of inequality. The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.unicef.org\/resources\/the-state-of-the-world-s-children-report-2015-statistical-tables\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">executive summary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> has data tables on aspects of children\u2019s lives.\u00a0 The annual <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org\/site\/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E\/b.8585863\/k.9F31\/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers.htm?msource=wenlpstw0515\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Save the Children\u2019s Fund state of the World\u2019s mothers report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> also provides shocking data on levels of infant and early child mortality in developing countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest Good Childhood report 2015 published this week by the Children\u2019s Society, children in the UK are unhappy.\u00a0 The report\u00a0measures subjective well-being in a number of key areas including relationships with family and friends, school life, satisfaction with appearance, money and possessions. Generally it found that compared to other nations children \u2018in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,15],"tags":[178,57,93,98],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-children","tag-happiness","tag-united-kingdom","tag-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}