The research, a taster of NCB's ongoing Children These Days study, found just over a third of young people believed adults were friendly towards seven- to 10-year-olds, but only 16 per cent were friendly towards 13- to 16-year-olds. "There's a definite shift from children to teenagers," said Nicola Madge, assistant research director at NCB.
The study, released to coincide with NCB's 40th anniversary, also found that one in 10 young people felt that adults were usually unfriendly towards teenagers.
Madge said: "The results suggest that one in 10 teenagers feel unwelcome in public places. Members of this group showed no age or gender patterns and those who categorised themselves as 'other than White' were only marginally more likely to say they rarely felt welcome, although they were significantly less likely to say they felt welcome most of the time."
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