A World Health Organization found that Israeli children are showing more symptoms of stress than any other children worldwide.
A recent study by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that Israeli children are more irritable and experience more anger than other children around the world.
The study also indicated that a higher percentage of Israeli school children suffer from headaches, stomach aches and back pain, as well as from an array of stress symptoms the likes of irritability and feelings of helplessness.
Isn’t that funny…. children who have been under constant attack by terrorists their entire lives are stressed. So what does the WHO think the cause is?
Dr. Yossi Harel of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Bar-Ilan University, who serves as the WHO’s chief researcher in Israel, said the report’s concerning results stem form the fact that many children have trouble finding the emotional support they need form the authority figures in their lives, such as parents, teachers and counselors.
Uh-huh. Lack of parental support. That’s why Israeli children are stressed. Not the bombs landing in their towns. Not the Palestinian terrorists grabbing heavy construction equipment and murdering their parents. Not the constant threat of being murdered.
It’s lack of parental support.
I’d really like to see the whole study, but if that article is quoting Harel correctly, the WHO report is in dire need of a reality check.
Interesting findings. Especially in light of the many studies that show that Israeli children are securely attached and have strong emotional bonds to home. Israeli families are larger than in other Western countries, another sign for healthy family life.
This reminds me of an evening some years ago. My little daughter was getting ready for bed, we watched the news. There was the report that a majority of European countries named Israel als greatest danger for world peace, more so than North Korea and Iran.
She called me and said: plase, let’s move to another country. I heard what they said on the news, Israel is the most dangerous country. I think they’re right, mama. It’s really dangerous here. There are terrorists trying to kill us.
I hugged her and had to explain that the Europeans don’t think we ARE IN danger but that we POSE A danger. I reassured her that shomer Israel and we proect her and that we won’t go anywhere else.
You know, my little daughter understood what these idiots don’t.
I’d be curious to see a similar study on Palestinian children, depending on who does it.
No doubt the Palestinian children fare even worse, opporessed as they are by the brutal Israelis.
Still, Israeli kids are very stressed, so I suppose they should be growing up to blow up buses and schools in Palestinian territories; after all, when people are stressed out like that what else can they do?