Inherited Values
It is more than a little difficult to comprehend, but there is a truly grim picture emerging of the kind of lifestyles that young people in Britain are being invested in. A series of statistical findings recently issued by the U.K. Schools Health Education Unit based at Exeter University gives figures and describes truly execrable conditions in which young, truly young people are being invested in life.
Children of twelve going to parties, and there becoming intoxicated, dead drunk. Girls concerned with how they look, seeing themselves as overweight, "fat", while the boys are more concerned with being seen to be carrying weapons. One in three girls reaching the ripe old age of eleven, seem to be engrossed in losing weight. And that number rises to 2/3 of girls by the age of 15.
When the girls have reached fifteen few eat breakfast, and many more miss having lunch. Children as young as twelve drinking the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine weekly. Data was collected from over 83,000 children ages ten to fifteen. The finding was that 4% of those between twelve and thirteen had consumed 28 units or more of alcohol the week before they were questioned.
Government limits for adult men are set for safety, health and longevity at three to four daily units. Yet by the age of fifteen, fully one-quarter of those children questioned claimed to have been drunk at least once in the week previous to their interviews. Roughly 15% claimed to have been drunk on two occasions in the previous week.
Although party venues seem like a propitious time for gatherings of the young to imbibe, it was actually in their own homes or at the homes of their friends or relatives that children were obtaining the alcohol, consuming beer, lager and cider - wine and spirits for the girls. Doesn't that auger well for their future health and social status?
Fear of violence propels boys to carry weapons for self-protection, although it was girls who were more exposed to bullying and expressed more fears about violence than boys. One-third of girls aged ten and eleven were fearful of attending school as a result of endemic bullying taking place there. Those fears appear to ease off as they become older.
"These new figures back up our own experiences. We know children who drink at younger ages are the ones who need help most. We also know that children whose parents misuse alcohol are more likely to develop their own problems later in life." Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, dedicated to helping people with drug and alcohol abuse.
As for the missed meals that girls seem to indulge in quite purposely, at critical times in the growing and maturing process: girls are missing for their developing bodies needed protein, iron and vital ingredients found in fresh foods. None of this reflects a healthy, well-balanced society.
Downright frightening in its implications.
What are parents doing if not teaching life-long values by example?
Children of twelve going to parties, and there becoming intoxicated, dead drunk. Girls concerned with how they look, seeing themselves as overweight, "fat", while the boys are more concerned with being seen to be carrying weapons. One in three girls reaching the ripe old age of eleven, seem to be engrossed in losing weight. And that number rises to 2/3 of girls by the age of 15.
When the girls have reached fifteen few eat breakfast, and many more miss having lunch. Children as young as twelve drinking the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine weekly. Data was collected from over 83,000 children ages ten to fifteen. The finding was that 4% of those between twelve and thirteen had consumed 28 units or more of alcohol the week before they were questioned.
Government limits for adult men are set for safety, health and longevity at three to four daily units. Yet by the age of fifteen, fully one-quarter of those children questioned claimed to have been drunk at least once in the week previous to their interviews. Roughly 15% claimed to have been drunk on two occasions in the previous week.
Although party venues seem like a propitious time for gatherings of the young to imbibe, it was actually in their own homes or at the homes of their friends or relatives that children were obtaining the alcohol, consuming beer, lager and cider - wine and spirits for the girls. Doesn't that auger well for their future health and social status?
Fear of violence propels boys to carry weapons for self-protection, although it was girls who were more exposed to bullying and expressed more fears about violence than boys. One-third of girls aged ten and eleven were fearful of attending school as a result of endemic bullying taking place there. Those fears appear to ease off as they become older.
"These new figures back up our own experiences. We know children who drink at younger ages are the ones who need help most. We also know that children whose parents misuse alcohol are more likely to develop their own problems later in life." Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, dedicated to helping people with drug and alcohol abuse.
As for the missed meals that girls seem to indulge in quite purposely, at critical times in the growing and maturing process: girls are missing for their developing bodies needed protein, iron and vital ingredients found in fresh foods. None of this reflects a healthy, well-balanced society.
Downright frightening in its implications.
What are parents doing if not teaching life-long values by example?
Labels: Britain, Health, Social-Cultural Deviations, Values
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