Having recently returned from a trip to Athens, I am intrigued by how couples there are quite happy to raise children in apartments with no access to a garden when in England, no access to a green space is practically tantamount to child abuse.  Before anyone shouts 'but they've got the weather to play outside', from what I've witnessed, the children there are just as computer game obssessed as ours are.  I'm not saying we should go out of our way to deprive our children of a garden, but maybe it doesn't actually do as much damage as we think.