Our children aren’t failures, we are - by William Rees-Mogg
THERE is no better test of a nation’s civilisation than the treatment of its children. That makes the report of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Unicef, particularly shocking for Britain. If Unicef has got it right, Britain comes bottom in children’s well-being out of 21 industrial nations, some of them much poorer than ourselves. The Netherlands, where schooling is more relaxed, more varied and more stable, comes top.
The specific comparisons are shaming. British children are more than twice as likely to have had under-age sex than the Polish, eight times more likely to have used cannabis than the Greeks, four times more likely to have been drunk than the French, seven times more likely to have had a baby than the Japanese and are twice as likely to be overweight as the Poles.
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