Girls' happiness hits an all-time low - Girlguiding survey

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Girlguiding's Girls' Attitudes Survey reveals girls' happiness levels have significantly declined over the past 15 years

• New Girlguiding research reveals girls’ happiness levels have significantly declined over the past 15 years, with only 17% of girls aged 7-21 stating they feel very happy, compared to 40% in 2009
• 89% of girls and young women aged 7-21 feel generally worried or anxious
• Girlguiding is calling on the UK government to take urgent action to revert the decline in girls’ happiness and address the sexual harassment, online harms and appearance pressures they face.

Girls’ happiness levels have reached an all-time low according to Girlguiding. The charity’s 15th annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey, supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, reveals a steady decline in girls’ happiness year on year and an increase in stress and anxiety since 2009. For 15 years, Girlguiding has released its annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey documenting how girls feel about their everyday lives, the pressures they face and the issues they care about. This year's findings reveal there are areas in girls' lives that are worse than when the survey began in 2009, and they're less happy. The number of girls who describe themselves as very happy has decreased significantly (40% in 2009 down to 17% in 2023), with the steepest decline in girls aged 7-10 (57% in 2009 compared to 28% in 2023). The survey also revealed that 89% of girls aged 7-21 feel worried or anxious, compared to 78% in 2016, with girls’ worries ranging from appearance pressures, online harms to being sexually harassed. Full press release and link to report https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/press-releases/girls-attitudes-survey-2023/

So the whole Establishment acts to deny the very existence of girls as a sex-based identity and then discovers that girls aren't happy. No shit!

I bet.
It must be horrible to be growing up today.

Violent porn is on everyone’s screens, parents don’t care.

Sexual assaults, that has always been happening, but now younger and younger boys are doing the assaulting.

Insane, impossible beauty standards.

Pressure to have sex, also always been a thing, but now boys/men demand violent sex.
When I was young, you got calle prude and a bitch if you hadn’t had sex, I’m sure that still happens - but now you’re a prude/bitch/’vanilla’ if you don’t want to be strangled, beaten, have anal, all this ’rough’ garbage.
Awful. And how everyone must have ’kinks’ and one night stands/casual.

Online in general. Imagine reading and knowing what men are like and how they view girls and women at that young age. Usually women got to almost in their 30’s or even older to figure it out. Now boys/men show it, and brag about it.

There’s really nothing to look for girls who are straight.
When it comes to men/romance/partnership.
Nothing.
And still they are only values for looks and having male partners and eventually having kids.
Being single woman is still shameful.
Horrible place to be stuck between.

Fuck. What else is about to get buried come out?

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/monica-sulley-the-cops-step-in

Ugh.

I bloody well hope there is a massive expose in the press.

I get the impression that, the Mail, at least, keeps thinking this will do it.

I hope to god that, at some point, they're right.

😶

Not watched it all but starts from 1600
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/eee1c49e-2ab5-40d9-9be8-9fb27b79a74a

Also… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66855386

If anyone is on YouGov, there is a survey today seeking opinions on girlguiding . There are some free text answer boxes, for impressions of the organisation and what would make people want to volunteer. Though you should all know

I logged in but didn't get questions about GG unfortunately

Ah ok! I had an invite to complete by email this morning