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< p>The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard.But in the rich world，children can suffer from a different kind of poverty of the spirit.< span style="text-decoration:underline;">21< /span>，one Western country alone now sees 14，000attempted suicides （自杀）every year by children under 15，and one child in five needs psychiatric（心理）advice.< br/>There are many good things about < span style="text-decoration:underline;">22< /span> in the Third World.Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents，relatives and neighbors for example.In the West，the very nature of work puts distance between < span style="text-decoration:underline;">23< /span> and children.But in the most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices < span style="text-decoration:underline;">24< /span>，the child sees mother and father，relatives and neighbors working nearby and often shares in that work.< br/>A child < span style="text-decoration:underline;">25< /span> in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community’s work；helping to dig or build，look after animals or babies rather than through playing with water and sand in kindergarten，keeping pets < span style="text-decoration:underline;">26< /span> playing with dolls.< br/>These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the western children.Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky.Children in the rich world，on the other hand，are provided with a watch watch as one of the < span style="text-decoration:underline;">27< /span> signs of growing up，so that they can < span style="text-decoration:underline;">28< /span> along with their parents about being late for school times，meal times，bed times，the times of TV shows.< br/>The Third World children do not usually < span style="text-decoration:underline;">29< /span> to stay indoors，still less in highrise apartment （公寓）.Instead of dangerous roads，"keep off the grass"sign and "don’t speak to strangers"，there is often a sense of freedom to study and play.Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them < span style="text-decoration:underline;">30< /span> from ten floors up.Of course，twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease.But childhood in the Third World is not all bad.< /p>

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