Having a family that gets on well together is much more important to children's happiness than whether their parents live together, according to research.
The Children's Society researchers talked to nearly 7000 young people in years 6, 8 and 10 at school. They found that an average of two children in every class was unhappy.
Boys tended to be happier than girls, and the biggest area of unhappiness was appearance. More than one in five girls and one in eight boys was unhappy with their appearance.
Children who felt that their family got along well together had much higher average levels of well-being than those who did not, whatever the structure of the family they lived in.
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