澳洲四分之一的家长对于养育子女觉得“害怕”或“不知所措”！

patrickzhu

SMH今天有一篇报道说，研究发现几乎是四分之一的家长对于养育子女觉得“害怕”或“不知所措”！

这项对于500个家庭的调查发现，大多数家长头疼的是养育孩子的日常所需。

三分之二的家长对于养育子女感到“担忧，担心或质疑”，
而百分之二十四认为“恐惧或不知所措”
百分之六认为“失去了控制” 。
Sydney GP and Generation Next的创始人Ramesh Manocha表示，澳大利亚的儿童正面临不确定的未来。

他说：“我们给我们的孩子的一切，他们有机会获得每一个机会，每一个物质条件，比过去拥有更多的信息。”
“然而，他们似乎不快乐和更不健康了。”
“这是一个令人震惊的趋势。如果我们继续这种方式，那么目前这一代的年轻人和他们的父母比的话好像变得更不健康。”


越来越多的父母陷入长时间工作，以赚取足够的钱养育自己的孩子。
很多父母赚更多的钱，以提供孩子更好的教育。
但是父母花的和孩子一起的时间反而越来越少了。

文章说有一个趋势是中产阶级最惨了。。。
The struggle to achieve the work-life balance is most prevalent in the middle class, which is now suffering higher rates of depression as a result.

原文在下面，大家可以看看。

[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2009-5-10 16:22 编辑 ]

patrickzhu

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/mothersday/parents-feel-caught-in-children-trap-20090509-ayl4.html

Parents feel caught in children trap

Rachel Browne
May 10, 2009

ALMOST one in four parents feels "terrified" or "overwhelmed" by the challenge of raising children, a study has found.

The survey of 500 families found most parents struggled with the daily demands of bringing up their children.

Two-thirds of parents reported feeling "worried, concerned or challenged" about raising children while 24 per cent felt "terrified or overwhelmed" and 6 per cent felt "out of control".

The findings of the study, commissioned by parenting group Generation Next, reveal a national family crisis, health professionals say.

Sydney GP and Generation Next founder Ramesh Manocha said Australian children were facing an uncertain future.

"We give our children everything. They have access to every opportunity, every material item, more information than ever before.

"And yet, they seem to be unhappier and unhealthier.

"This is an alarming trend. If we keep going this way, the current generation of young people will turn out to be less healthy than their parents."

Increasingly, parents fall into the trap of working long hours to earn enough money to provide for their children when they would be better off spending time with them.

"As parents spend more time earning, thinking that they're doing the right thing by their children because they are earning more money to provide better education, they're spending less time with the children," Dr Manocha said.

"The difficulty there is that parents find it difficult to take what time they do have and make sure it's quality time with their children. As a result, you have parents spending less time with their children and children turning to their peer group for support."

The struggle to achieve the work-life balance is most prevalent in the middle class, which is now suffering higher rates of depression as a result.

"Of all the socio-economic groups, there is a disproportionately higher rate of unhappiness and depression in the upper middle class," Dr Manocha said.

"Our children are going to pay the price for middle-class materialism."

Dr Manocha is urging parents to become more proactive in raising their children, and has organised a parenting seminar featuring the adolescent pyschologist Michael Carr-Gregg, drug and alcohol researcher Paul Dillon and cyber safety adviser Susan Mclean, in Sydney on May 23.

"Parents and sensible people can take control of the situation," he said. "The message is not social apocalypse. But if we remain as passive observers of the assault on childhood it will overwhelm members of the younger generation."

wdmznzd

我也感到worried, concerned or challenged

shangpin

还是穷好，有奋斗的目标。

applenet

生命是个旅程，什么事情都是challenge，经历一遭就没白活。

旋木

在教育孩子的问题上， 我也是相当的矛盾的，不知道在我们眼中的‘好’是不是真的会让孩子感到快乐

ab339

我只想着在孩子小可爱的时候Enjoy the time with them,至于将来，就看他们自己的造化了，当然尽力提供好的教育条件啦，是不是有点不负责任？