Is your family #thrivingorsurviving?

What’s it like raising a family in Britain today? Children and families charity 4Children have launched a major inquiry to find out.

Over the next few months, the charity want to speak to as many children, young people, parents and carers as possible in order to gain a full understanding of modern family life in Britain― and what can be done to better support it.

Are families just surviving?

A national poll of 2000 parents commissioned by the charity suggests that life is hard for many of Britain’s families.

In it, a quarter of parents described their family as “surviving: only just coping”, while only one in three believed their children’s standard of living would be better than their own.

Help the inquiry

If you’d like to help 4Children’s inquiry, you can do so in a few ways:

• if you’re a parent or carer, you can take the #thrivingorsurviving survey here.
• if you’re under 21, you can tell 4Children what life is like for you.
• if you run a group or service that 4Children could visit or hold a focus group with, you can

Find out more about the inquiry on 4children’s website.