• Where Are The Happiest Kids?

  Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Feb 7, 2013 (message contributor)

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WHERE ARE THE HAPPIEST KIDS?

Where do the happiest kids in the world live? A study released in 2012 titled "The New Definition of Childhood" produced by an agency headquartered in Chicago found that the happiest kids in the world live in Mexico--despite its many social ills and widespread poverty.

The study asked 4,000 children ages 6 to 12 in 12 countries what it’s like to grow up today. According to the first-ever Global Kids Happiness Index, kids in Mexico were the happiest in the world, followed by Spain, Brazil, and Germany. American kids scored fifth. Across almost all countries, the most important source of happiness for kids is close family and friends. The solution to nearly all our social ills always seems to come back to relationships with the most important people in our life.

(Halee Gray Scott, www.christianitytoday.com, "Want to be Happy?")