UNICEF released a report yesterday that ranked the well-being of children from the world's wealthiest countries. They came to their conclusions using these six factors: 1) material well-being, 2)health and safety, 3) education, 4)peer and family
relationships, 5) behaviors and risks, and 6) young people's own subjective
sense of well-being.
UNICEF calls it Report Card 7. They ranked the 21 OECD countries (which I had to look up, hence the Wiki link). The Netherlands and several Scandinavian countries topped the list, the top four were The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland and the bottom two were the Britain and the U.S. Apparently British kids don't play well with other British children, do lots of drugs and have lots of sex, and kids in the United States have crappy day care and preventative health care and don't eat their fruits and vegetables.
Needless to say, the British and U.S. governments don't like this report. Go figure.
