01 Feb 2009
Children's lives 'harder today'

This is the kind of tale that makes me wish for a time machine: so I could send these boneheads back 1000 years, when half of all live births were dead by age 5. Or back 100 years, when my grandmother got her children oranges for Christmas. Or even back 45 years, when measles killed 4 of my first grade classmates.

Absent a time machine, an airliner would do. They could take a look around Darfur, Gaza, Haiti or any number of other places. Kids in some of those places do have a harder time growing up now than their parents did: because they have a harder time staying alive.

Kids People in the West seem to have forgotten what hardship means.

The lives of British children are more difficult now than they were in the past, a large-scale report into childhood claims.

(link) [BBC News]

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