BBC Radio 4 last week broadcast the sound it makes. Most listeners wereassaulted by a wall of, well, silence. The presenters received plenty ofemails during the programme confirming that, as well as some fromteenagers saying they could hear it and it made them want to run away.But there were also emails from older people to whom it was perfectlyaudible and from young people who heard nothing.
So much for that rubbish idea then.
- Papers last week leapt at the chance to publish yet more evidence ofthe ills of teenagers, this time their financial cost.
The latest in a dreary succession of surveys of the cost of raisingchildren, this time published by Family Circle magazine, revealed 16 tobe the most expensive age. A 16-year-old living at home costs on average64 a week, mostly, it seems, because of the amount of food theycan put away. The total cost of raising a child to 18 averages 43,056.
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