Date published: 2007/08/04
The BBC says:
The majority of teenagers left by their parents to fend for themselves over the holidays feel at risk of bullying, according to a charity.
Charity 4Children found that 70% of full-time working parents continue their jobs over the summer break.
The survey, which questioned 16,000 children aged 11-16, found the break is when many fear being a victim of crime, anti-social behaviour, and bullying.
Seventy-two per cent had witnessed anti-social behaviour in the past year.
In the past year 66% have been bullied, the survey found, many outside of school.
Yet again the BBC publishes what reads just like a press release for a special interest pressure group. Most surveys are worthless (you get the results you want by skewing the questions and/or the sample), and there is no indication here how the results were arrived at, so the numbers quoted are meaningless. And even if the numbers were accurate, are they any better or worse than at any other time in the past hundred (or thousand) years?
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