Mission Australia
It’s easy to write off young people as immature and ill-equipped to deal with the challenges of adulthood, when you’re bombarded with images of them partying and drinking.
But scratch a little deeper and you soon realise that judging young people by the mostly harmless antics of a few is deeply unfair.
Mission Australia’s 11th annual national Youth Survey – which this year tested the views of 15,000 people aged 15-19 from across the country – found, that in terms of their priorities and values, young Australians most definitely have good heads on their shoulders.
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I’m not sure what we called “body image” as an issue before it was called “body image.”
It’s certainly not a new thing. When I was a teenager it was everywhere, we just didn’t have a name for it, so I don’t think we thought of it as an “issue”, just part of being an adolescent.
Now it’s not just an issue, it’s the biggest issue, according to the latest Mission Australia national Survey of Young Australians. Asked to rank a whole list of issues of personal concern, 31.1 per cent of the 50,240 people aged 11 to 24 years named body image a “major concern”. In the 20-24-year-old cohort the figure was 40.3 per cent.
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OchreBunyip says:
The media existed when I and my peers were young and impressionable; part of our education was learning personal filters. The phrase I recall was “Stand guard at the gates of your mind”. Rather than expecting governments and industry to control and regulate and legislate for everything, we learned to… Read more »
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iansand says:
I wonder how many of the posters here have actually been in the same room as a 16 year old girl, let alone walked down the street with one. They are working out how the world works and what their place in it is. They are inherently insecure, and compare… Read more »
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