Today’s children and young people are growing up in an “unprecedented toxic climate” of stress, pressure and fear of failure, a national charity has warned.
YoungMinds, which is committed to improving youngsters’ emotional wellbeing and mental health, quizzed 2,000 children and young people between the ages of 11 and 25 about the issues that worry them.
More than half of them believed they would be a failure if they did not get good grades, while a third did not know where to turn for help when they felt depressed or anxious. Half of those questioned had been bullied.
More than half of 11 to 14-year-olds had viewed online pornography, with 40 per cent saying this had affected relationships with their peers.
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