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Childhood - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Palmer - recent technology has resulted in significant harm to children - toxic childhood
      - there are significant inequalities between children - not all have benefitted from protections
      - evidence shows Britain's children are amongst the unhappiest in the Western world
      - Furedi - argues children are overprotected and we live in an age of paranoid parenting
  - - - 2014, the average cost of raising a child for 21 years is £225,000
    - - a high expenditure on childcare due to both parents working - meaning they have to spend money and spend less time
      - role of advertising - pester power of children mean parents feel the need to give into demands for unnecessary stuff
      - doesn't include lower income families who are not in the position to be spending £225,000
  - - - McRobbie
      - girls experience bedroom culture - quiet, intellectual activities
      - boys have more freedom at an earlier age
    - - Woodroffe
      - rich children benefit more than poor children in education
      - 1/2 of all A A* grades are held by the 7% of privately educated children
    - - Brannen
      - Asian families were much stricter on their daughters
      - Religious idea of Izzat - family honour impact on a child's experience
- - - - increase in ADHD
      - increase in substance abuse and self-harm
      - increase in mental health issues
    - - unhealthy food
      - lack of play in natural surroundings
      - poor sleep pattern
      - little interaction with family
      - decline in emotional security
    - - ethnocentric - only applies to western ideas of childhood
      - not actually a new thing - we just have better understanding of mental health so it appears toxic
      - could be a result of paranoid parenting from more information availability