Bad parenting is a threat to children’s lives

This year, Europe will have the highest rates of child depression, child-on-child murder, underage pregnancy, obesity, violent and anti-social behaviour and pre-teen alcoholism since records began.

How is it that when, on the surface, western European society has never done more for its children, statistics on European childhood look increasingly ominous?

A study by Unicef of 21 industrialised countries, An Overview of Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries (2007),came to the remarkable conclusion that ...