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...down with 1,172 kids, ages 6 to 14, in 25 U.S. cities. The poll was conducted for Nickelodeon, the children's TV channel, and TIME. Kids from a sample weighted to match U.S. demographics were interviewed one-on-one and without their parents in a venue where most feel at ease: a shopping mall. Pollsters also interviewed 397 parents...
What emerges loud and clear from the study is that kids are very happy to be kids, and they don't view the world as the nasty place their parents perceive it to be. Nine out of 10 say they feel safe in their schools and neighborhoods. While parents list crime, violence and guns as the worst aspects of being a child today, such concerns are way down the list for kids. Their gripes are the timeless laments of childhood: "getting bossed around," homework, chores...
...have taken note of this disregard, and if there's a lesson for parents in the Nickelodeon/TIME poll, it's tune in to your kids and show them some respect. While the majority of parents in the study claim to have great respect for kids, only 31% of kids feel that adults actually do respect them "a lot." This "respect gap" is even more glaring among kids in the 12- to 14 age group: 27% said they get little respect from adults or none...
There are other signs of change. The most worrisome: 1 in 6 kids ages 12 to 14 claims to have seen a gun at school. Other studies have also shown that American kids have easy access to guns. That kids in the survey feel safe at school may be because school shootings remain rare. The study did find, however, that black and Hispanic children are a lot more worried than whites about being crime victims...
...nearly 100 hours--up to 20 of them, he estimates, spent haggling with insurance companies over approval for drugs and treatments for his patients. "I used to take time off, but now I work all my waking hours," laments Gunby. "I'm just being gobbled up, and I feel as if I have no power...