Adults worry about children's immorality

[30 June 2008]

A report has found that 66% of adults feel that children's morality today is not as strong as it was when they were young.

Furthermore, 69% said that children's community values had fallen. The poll of 1,176 adults for the Children's Society reinforces children's perception that adults have negative attitudes towards them. Only a third of those questioned felt that attitudes towards young people in their community were 'mostly positive'. In separate evidence, 11% of children said that adults in their neighbourhood were 'never' friendly to them and 37% said adults were only friendly 'sometimes'.

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