The uniformed youth charity’s latest Girls’ Attitudes Survey reveals the proportion of girls who describe themselves as being “happy most of the time” fell to 63 per cent in 2021, down from 81 per cent in 2018.
The proportion of girls aged seven to 21 reporting as feeling “unhappy most of the time” almost doubled in the past three years from 17 to 32 per cent. The number of girls aged seven to 10 reporting as feeling happy most of the time also fell from 43 to 25 per cent over the same period.
The survey, supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, found a rise in loneliness among girls and young women of all ages, but particularly so for 17- to 21-year-olds (72 per cent) and those identifying as lesbian, gay bisexual and queer (LGBQ) (77 per cent).
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