Almost one in 10 children over the age of eight are unhappy, according to a landmark survey by the Children's Society, which questioned more than 30,000 youngsters aged eight to 16 in the UK.
The charity's researchers found that family had the biggest impact on children's happiness. Relationships within a household rather than the family "structure" most affected the emotional wellbeing of young people, they found.
The Children's Society said its evidence showed that "at any one time, one in 11 (9%) eight- to 15-year-olds had low levels of subjective well-being". Across the population, that equated to just over 500,000 having low levels of subjective well-being on any one day.
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