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What makes a good childhood?

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The aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is the greatest threat to our children, according to a report published by the Children's Society. Peter Hitchens, who writes for the Mail on Sunday, and Matthew Taylor, who was a chief adviser to Tony Blair and now runs the Royal Society for the Arts, discuss the troubling picture painted by the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood.

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