Health_wellbeing

							The health and wellbeing of Australian children lags well
behind other developed nations, according to a report released
today.
The report, by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth,
provides an international comparison of 42 measures of young
people's wellbeing.
Teenage pregnancy rates in Australia are much higher than the OECD
average, while pregnancy rates for Indigenous young people are the
highest of all the industrialised nations.
Australian children are three times as likely to live in poverty as
children in Finland, and 12 times more likely to live in a jobless
household as those in Japan.
Australia also fares badly in a classic measure of family relationships,
ranking 21st out of 27 nations in terms of children eating a meal with
their parents.
Tags: community-and-society, family-and-
children, children, family, australia, act, canberra-2600