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The young are miserable and the old are happy – shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Surveys prove the anomaly – I blame smartphones

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

We learn from a new report that children in England are among the unhappiest in the world — more unhappy, even, than the children of Ethiopia, Algeria or Israel. Why should this be so? Life is still quite good in England. It is generally peaceful and prosperous. Yet, in the admittedly rather haphazard list of countries surveyed by the Children’s Society and the University of York, the only one in which children were found to be more miserable than here was South Korea.

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