Discouraging to say the least

[Marcus Kobra]

But I dont appologize.... I never insulted. I just wish to agree that some other guy SAID it i jsut pointed out what he said.

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

Well I guess I'll stand to what I said then. I'd grab the closest blonde and wack whoever talk bad about my country in the head with it.

[Marcus Kobra]

O.O *blinks* I jsut so happen to be blonde  (anyone notice that if you want to use dogs to describe people country that the USA is represented by all of the finest breeds..... in one dog!! A damned mongrel!! LOL and dont anyone say it aint so!! ) Ok i've bashed my own nation well enough for one day *goes off to get jaked on Hornsby's*

[qom_riyadh]

IMO the money isn't the most important thing that makes children well.

Take my country as an example - Poland. 14 on the said list. Treated as a poor country. Well, it is poor, damn poor. And although we have problems with poverty, unemployment etc, I can't blame money (or lack of it) for unhappy children.

Kids needs their parents attention, feeling of being loved and worthy. Also children must know what is he/she DISallowed to do, because without such knowledge a young person doesn't know what's his place in his house, his family, his society - this leads to disrespectful behavior and to many many other things, that we can't be proud of.

Returning to money - IMO having too much money turns to be more dangerous than living poor. Although wealth eases lots of things, but it's very easy for a kid to learn that he can get everything that he wants, if his parents doesn't use their money wisely.

I'm getting to the point, that it's not important if you live in USA, UK, Norway, Poland, Ukraine or Somalia. If you give your kids enough time, care and love, you're an a very good way to raise a child, of which you will be proud of - because it's a great chance that he will become a good human.

And please... Cut the bullshit about which country is better... Geeez....

[Locke DaOrt]

UK > Sweden!

*slaps dell*!

hihihihi, honestly i think these reports are a bunch of bullshit, theres no way to measure the standard of life of children correctly in a certain country short of asking every kid in the said countrys how they are. And even then kids lie... dirty rotten bast.. Anyhow.. yah i made my point 

[Samuel West]

The general atetyude of the generation can make a huge effect, If a large percent of young people decide to turn to drugs it is likely they will pull down a lot of their friends.
As a result, this could change dramatically of the next generation.

Also i think that the Governments attempts to protect children are getting in the way.
Like when i was young my parents smacked me for anything i did wrong, and now I'm an Okay guy.
My brother on the other hand hasn't been smacked as much and is a complete twat most of the time.

[Khaelieth]

Aye, asking a kid who didn't get an Xbox 360 for Xmas and asking if he's happy... Well, you know the answer.

[userjosh5368]

Well Labor goverment suck they just fucked up the country really!
I agree with Tom, im an alrite guy now but you get these id's coming into school now and they get cheekier and cheekier until well,they get bullied or beaten up, thats the school reality good thing im not at school anymore

But Britian is a bit messed up with the child protection thing,once you've been it by a cane you will never do anything wrong again i tell yer

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

Just because labour may have torn your country apart Josh does not mean that it does in every other country that has a labour government. I'm not a big fan of labour, however the Swedish labour party has built Sweden to what it is today, bad and good. And the fact that we take care of each other and that Sweden is a great nation to grow up in (at the moment. Not to discuss the current development) means that labour has worked here. However, with a nation like Sweden that has an incredible trust in the government and the same labour pretty much all the time create gaps and make politicians focused on holding power rather than developing the country.

[Marcus Kobra]

Ok i had jsut wrote alot on this most recent post... but i decided to delete my writting.
Question:

Should I lock this thread???

[qom_riyadh]

Probably. As we all can see, each topic which has even a slight national/political background leads to senseless comparisons and not-very-nice comments adressed to other people...

[Delcarakdur]

Hence why I don't post in such thread usually...Lock this senseless..."babble"...Babble ain't meant to mean anything anyhow... *nods sagely*

OI! *wacks Khae for no good reason!!*

[Khaelieth]

Well Labor goverment suck they just fucked up the country really!
I agree with Tom, im an alrite guy now but you get these id's coming into school now and they get cheekier and cheekier until well,they get bullied or beaten up, thats the school reality good thing im not at school anymore

But Britian is a bit messed up with the child protection thing,once you've been it by a cane you will never do anything wrong again i tell yer

That depends. We Scots have different laws than you. And it's U.K. Labour, seeing as there a lot of different labour parties out there, the one in Norway being distinctively more lefty. And Thatcherism screwed the U.K. Most Scots still hate her passionatly. But this is off-topic.

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain is ranked last for childhood quality of life among industrialized nations, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report on Wednesday.

The charity looked at 40 indicators to gauge the lives of children in 21 economically advanced nations, the first such study of its kind.

The study found Britain lagged behind on key measures of poverty and deprivation, health and safety, relationships

Apparently, it's UNICEF (not the E.U.) that's done the report. But this is statistics, I don't think you can measure "well-being" and "happiness" in any precise manner. How they conducted the report is also worth knowing. Did they get kids to fill in a sheet with "how happy are you? Choose a number, 10 being best." Or did they measure this up against the average amount of education? I'm doing statistics at Uni, and this is very strange.

[Moraine DiGoraz]

The Dutch scored 10th place when it came to wealth, so that is not the issue here.
It's quite simple really. Weed! Am I the only one to see this?

[Marcus Kobra]

This thread now LOCKED, please continue in your own private circles. thread was never intended to insult anyone and well its become apparent that it has... SI'm routing a sugestion that political/economical/ topics not pretaining dirrectly to BoC or UO be nixxed and considered Contraband.