Big, Big Surprise.

Do we really need another uber-bureaucrat to tell us this:

English society lacks
the "warmth" towards children that is found in other European
countries, according to the first children’s commissioner for England,
who was appointed yesterday.

Al
Aynsley-Green, at the moment the government’s child health tsar, warned
of a "deep ambivalence" in England towards children and childhood, with
families and parents caring greatly about their own children but
remaining unconcerned about other people’s.

The country that claims (correctly) that children should be seen and not heard? that still sends seven year olds off to boarding schools?

Seesh, why not just accept it and get on with life?

4 responses

  1. “with families and parents caring greatly about their own children but remaining unconcerned about other people’s”.
    Isn’t that precisely what they should be doing?

  2. It’s too bad for everyone that Prince Charles had to come home from boarding school eventually.

  3. This is also the country where smiling at someone elses cute children is seen as the definite mark of a pervert. Not suprising then that people tend not to take too much interest in children other than their own.

  4. What is so very wrong with boarding schools? I joined one when six and amazingly I do not sit down in the corner of rooms mumbling and eating the plaster. But then, … social workers would have done better.
    Regarding the comment on Prince Charles, I must disagree. He seems to me quite a gentleman. Think it over. Just take a look at our Borbons …
    Ignacio.
    Spain.

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