书目名称 | Indicators of Children‘s Well-Being |
副标题 | Theory and Practice |
编辑 | Asher Ben-Arieh,Ivar Frones |
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概述 | Represents a set of analysis of families, peers, schooling, communities and the broader social and economic environment of childhood.Illustrates how the use of indicators provide understanding of chil |
丛书名称 | Social Indicators Research Series |
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描述 | The measuring and monitoring children’s well-being is of growing importance to policymakers and those who strive to improve the lives of children everywhere. In the last decade, public attention has centered on children, a development driven by decreasing fertility in the most developed countries of the world and the postindustrial emphasis on human capital development. These developments position children at the center of the future capacity of a nation or region. Children have increasingly been identified as subjects with rights and entitlements of their own, as illustrated by the U. N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which emphasizes a child’s right to develop his or her capacities. The CRC represents a milestone both in the understanding of children and in offering principles and guidelines for policies. The rights underscored by the convention require evidence on children’s well-being and theories or models for understanding their evolving capacities and development. The right to develop one’s capacities illustrates a complexity of analyzing children’s well-being: the analysis must encapsulate both the current standard of living and the potential for growth and fu |
出版日期 | Book Dec 20081st edition |
关键词 | Child Maltreatment; Peers; child indicators; children; children‘s well being; development; measuring well |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9304-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8103-2 |
issn_series | 1387-6570 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |