Communication 'key to helping families stay healthy'
Maintaining open communications is a key part of ensuring families remain healthy and secure, it has been argued.
Adrienne Katz, lead consultant at Young Voice, has said that children desire their parents to communicate with them about the problems in their lives and issues which affect the family.
Failure to do so could result in children imagining worse things than are actually happening, she noted, a development which could impact upon a family health insurance plan should anyone become ill as a result.
She noted: "Parents think that by not talking to them about it they are not worrying them, but actually children say they would rather have a well communicating parent that talks about the things they really worry about."
According to a new survey by the Children's Society, one in five 11 to 13-year-olds say they are worried about what they see on the news, a figure that rises to 28 per cent among the 17 to 19-year-old age group.
In addition, the report noted that many of the problems faced by young people today are as a result of parents placing too much emphasis on individualism, rather than the greater good. Leading to the development of problems such as income inequality, high family break-up rates and teenage antisocial behaviour.
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