Title: Wealthy But Unhappy 
Feed: CWKN #443, June 24, 2009
Time: 1:39

SUGGESTED LEAD:  IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HAVING TOO MUCH MONEY?  ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, FOR CHILDREN ESPECIALLY…THE ANSWER IS YES.  MORE ON TODAY’S CONNECT WITH KIDS.
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NARR:  HAIDEE (HEIDI) WOULD DEMAND EXPENSIVE CLOTHES FROM HER PARENTS. (:03)

SUPER:  Haidee Raygoza, 15 years old (:06)
“It sounds so desperate and embarrassing to tell you that I was like this, but it’s true.  And I figured that nice things, like clothes for example would help me very much to get to that point where I was popular.”

NARR:  LIKE MANY KIDS- A PART OF HER SELF WORTH WAS BASED ON THINGS … NEW CLOTHES … THE MOST POPULAR BRANDS… THE LATEST FASHIONS … (:07)

SUPER: Stacey DeWitt, President, Connect with Kids (:28)
“If you are dependent on things and on external praise, getting your self-worth from the outside world, you kind of become an empty bottom-less pit, it’s never enough.”

NARR:  A UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER STUDY FINDS THAT TEENS WHO HAVE MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS … AND GOOD HEALTH … ARE HAPPIER AND HAVE HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM … WHILE TEENS WHO PUT A HIGH VALUE ON WEALTH AND FAME ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.  (:17)

SUPER:  Peter Whybrow, M.D., Psychiatrist  (:54)
“If you earn over $150,000 a year as a family, then the chances of your child being depressed, interested in drugs are much higher than if the family earns only the national average, which is about $50,000.”
 
NARR:  HAIDEE’S PARENTS THOUGHT SHE WAS SPOILED … SO THEY SENT HER TO LIVE WITH HER GRANDPARENTS IN MEXICO FOR THE SUMMER. (:06)

SOT:  Haidee Raygoza, 15 years old
“They don’t even have running water. They would bring out the buckets and just shower outside.  But everyone is so happy, and just so laid back – and they didn’t have anything over there.”

NARR:  SHE SAYS THAT SUMMER CHANGED HER LIFE.   (:02)

SOT:  Haidee Raygoza, 15 years old
“I just know who I am, and for the rest of my life I will be happy and I know where to look.”

SUGGESTED TAG:   OTHER STUDIES ON MONEY AND HAPPINESS SHOW WEALTHY KIDS ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO USE DRUGS THAN INNER-CITY KIDS.  EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S AN ATTEMPT TO SELF-MEDICATE THEIR DEPRESSION.

Extra sound bite:
Super: Stacey DeWitt, President, Connect with Kids
“We interview thousands of kids nationwide and we over and over again hear” I can’t ever get to satisfaction, I can’t ever get to true joy, I am just striving for one more thing” and that’s the danger when we don’t focus on internal values and we don’t teach our kids how to truly make themselves happy. It’s about learning to make yourself happy and not looking for the outside world to make you happy.” :31