Children from richer families are happier than those from poorer families
Does having access to material goods and advantages associated with wealth make a child happier?
Is happiness and wealth related?
Can money really 'buy' happiness?
Notice that the issue doesn't necessarily say that children from poorer families are NOT happy, just that in comparison children from richer families are happier.
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Rich families are happier than poorer families as they have money to buy them happiness. With money you can buy anything you want. They can buy the latest gadgets, health and beauty products as they are financially stabled. With money, we can undergo a plastic surgery to change or improve our facial features anytime. This is being said as girls want to make themselves look like the celebrities that they adore. They can buy EXPENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE skin care and cosmetic products such as facial wash, toner, hydrating mask and for cosmetics they can buy products such as MAC and this can improve the way they look. This is the key to why rich families are happier because parents will support their children in anything they do even if it involve in changing their children looks. Group: Nusrah, Fatin, Hidayah, Mas, Haziqah While money can't buy us everything, it can buy us most things. Material objects like branded goods, a bigger house or car does make a person happier. The happiness comes from satisfying a desire within each of us. Thus, a parent who can afford to satisfy their children's desire for material objects certainly gives the child the happiness of gratification. No, money can't buy us most things. If the person don't have the money the person need, he or she can't buy branded goods, a bigger house or a car. This can cause un happiness as the person can't buy what he or she wants to buy. A parent who can afford to satisfy their children's desire sometimes can't give the child the happiness they want and need. Group : Lutfiyati, Nur Zafirah, Nureffa, Nureffi It is not true that the rich are more happier than the poor. The more money that the rich children have the less content they are. Being content is being happy with what you have. The rich do not only have one item, they have a few of branded goods. This shows that they are not contented with only one. Unlike the poor, who are brought up by being contented with what they have. The rich children would tend to want more. The rich children normally have the latest gadget, an expensive watch, shoes or branded bags. This shows that the rich children are not content with what the have. However, for the poor when they are given branded good they will treasure the item 1
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Members: Irsyad, Amirah,Natasyah, Aide,Khairul Richer children from richer families are not happier than children from poorer families. This is due to because children from richer families never feel satisfied with what they have. They will get bored of the stuff/item that they bought, and buy themselves something new. An example, toys, gadgets, clothes. Once they get tired of the old ones, they will always want a new item. A scenario: A boy has just bought an iPhone 4s. few months after, the iPhone 5 was released. He decides that the iPhone 4s is the "past" and then buys the iPhone 5 immediately it was released. This is an example to show that richer children can never be satisfied with what they have. "They will get bored of the item that they bought, and buy themselves something new." The boredom will be temporary because it can be replace with new items which is better than the previous. With every new gadgets that are released, it get more advanced and easier to be used.Therefore they will be happier than before because it is convenient and trendy. This will increase their happiness than before. 1
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GROUP MEMBERS : Azry, mirza, aidril and fadzreen. Its is not true that the richer children are not happier than the poor. The richer children are able to buy more new thing because their family are financially stable. It is true that the rich will get bored of old things hence they will buy new things to satisfy themselves. They are able to buy new things several time . Thus , this will make them ease their desire. They are able to buy new things that are expensive without worrying about the cost. Talking about iphones, some children needs these kind of gadgets to communicate among one another for their personal convenience such as downloading different kinds of games. This will also help to sustain their happiness for a longer period of time. Its not true that richer children from richer families are not happier than children from a poorer family. Richer families are happier then poor families children because whenever they receive a gift from their parents. When a richer family children receive something from their parents usually its its not about the material but the value, origin and heart behind it, same goes to every family including the poorer one thus changing to a new product whenever it is release don't necessary means that the children are not being satisfied by what their family gives them it simply just means that they are catching up with technology or they could just buying it to satisfy their desire. Children who come from rich families are always happier than those who come from poorer families. Rich children have good living environment. They have all the physical comfort they get. For example, they have their own privacy they get and have the room to their selves. When they have the room to their selves, they will tend to can do their own things without any disturbance from anybody. Poorer families does not get to buy bigger houses, therefore they must buy smaller houses and let their children share their rooms. The poorer children do not get their own privacy. When they do not get their own privacy, they will tend to quarrel with their siblings because there is distractions from their siblings and it makes them hard to study. Therefore it causes unhappiness. Richer children get better living condition and that will give them more happiness than the poorer families. Group: Akmal, Hazwan and Nasiruddin 1
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We do not agree that people coming from richer families are happier than people in the poorer families. Richer children does not appreciate with what they have and are always craving for more. They are always pursuing for new gadgets such as phone,etc. Whereas poorer children appreciate what they have as they know how hard their parents work to get them the things they want. They will see it as a precious gift and cherish it in whatever ways they can to show their appreciation. For example, when the Iphone 5 just came out, the children from the richer families will get it right away although they have a quality phone which is in good condition just to keep themselves classy. While poorer families on the other hand , cherish the phone they had been using for a long period of time as the phone still function as well as the quality phone. So how can rich people be happier when they desire for more but doesn't cherish with what they have as they can get what they want easily. Hence , children from the richer families are not happier than those from the poorer families. I agree that children coming from richer families are happier than people in the poorer families. Firstly, children from a richer families have some obvious advantages in life compared to poorer children. They usually live in spacious houses, with large gardens and some might even have swimming pools, where they have plenty of space to play in or invite their friends. They have many toys and games and usually have big television sets, computers in their rooms and even the latest mobile-phones. Rich parents often give their children a lot of premium treats, which may include them bringing them for a good meal or expensive trips to various places , luxury holidays overseas. They also make sure that their children have the upmost opportunity to take part in as many leisure pursuits as they wish and arrange for them to be driven to these in comfortable and expensive cars whenever they go to school or go out with their friends. All in all, it shows that such children have an enviable lifestyle, but are they happy? Definitely! This differs with each person. Some rich children will be happy and some will not be, just as some poor children are happy and some are not. As you start to grow up money can make life more comfortable, and allow you to have a happy life which includes vast variety opportunities, high level of education & expensive hobbies. A higher level of education isn't only for the rich, the poor can also have it too just that its slightly more challenging. Therefore when you are rich, you will be able to apply for higher level of education with ease. Even though the poor might be able to go aboard for higher level of education, they still have to consider about tuition fees, accommodation, living expenses, .buying books, stationary, airfares and transport. Studying in a different climate will mean buying warmer clothes which will cost a lot of money and if you can afford because you are from a richer family, obviously you would be so much happier! What makes for a happy childhood? Obviously, the love of parents is an extremely important factor, whether their parents are rich or poor. However. assumptions from others might say that the richer family parent work for extremely long hours and would not have enough time for their children but not all family that are rich do not have enough time for family bonding. Most of them end their work at 5pm and would usually have time for family dinner. Sometimes poor children do not have enough to eat and do not have decent clothes to wear. They might live in what appears to many other people to be substandard accommodation. Therefore I conclude that children from a richer family are happier than children in the poorer families! i agree that rich families are happier than poor families. Rich families have less conflicts due to financial security. Rich families also have family bonding due to its financial security. But poor families have to worry about their financial security as they need to worry about their bills,children school fees, transportation, and for their children allowance. -Norbaini,Qiqi, ammar, Shahrul 1
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It is not true that children from richer families are not happier then children from poorer families because richer families can afford anything they want but they don't cherish it . Children from rich families can get what they want easily through their parents but they don't put in the effort to earn the money themselves , so they will not treasure it because it not their hardwork and therefore blood and sweat is spend earning the money . It is true that children from richer families are happier. This is because money can buy everything that can give them happiness and satisfaction. They can afford to buy latest branded clothes and gadgets while the poorer children have to save up their money just to buy a thing. The richer children can also get their things faster and earlier when the poorer children have to wait. Richer children also get updated all the time for the latest gadgets and things that they want while the poorer children would take a long time to get to know what are the latest things that have just been stocked in.They are special from the poorer children as they can afford those branded things that makes them feel unique from other people. 0
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I agree that richer families are happier. The rich have more opportunities to make more friends.The rich usually dress elegantly even though they are going to school because they are usually neat,formal and tidy. They also make a good impression of themselves unlike the poor. Usually the poor dressed very sloppy and untidy because they don't have enough money to look their best. Thus, rich people have more opportunities to have more friends *Your sentence should be: I agree that children from rich families are happier. "The rich children have more opportunities to make more friends" - Having more friends would also create more problems in their life. They will also be taken advantage. Whereas, the children from the poor families remain humble to everyone. "......they are going to school because they are usually neat,formal and tidy" -What does dressing up neatly got to do with happiness? How can you say that richer children dress elegantly when going to school? Everyone in the school wear the same school uniform and they look same. Nobody looks rich or poor. How are you so sure that having money can make more friends?You won't know if they truly want to be your friend or they are only interested in your money. 1
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There is no good reason for poorer families to have less opportunities to make friends in terms of how they dress. Having to look good does not mean that you have to spend a lot of money on fashionable clothing. Though , children from poorer families cannot afford such clothing. It does not mean that most children from poorer families dress sloppy and untidily. They can also dress as formally and as neat as the rich children, but having a better appearance does not means having more friends. Poorer children can also earn respect from people and gain friends through their companionships instead of dressing just to get a proper impression from others. People develop true friendships with the poorer children for who they are but not because of how they dress, and also they have to constantly keeping up with their appearance as people tend to follow them for their fame and reputation while the poor people does not really have to keep up with their appearance as people does not follow them because of their fame and reputation. Hence , dressing elegantly only provide more opportunities for fake friends to get closer and will be gone at hard times unlike poorer families children they get to experience true friendship where their friends would stick up for them which makes them happier than richer families. |
