Americas Children In Brief
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Author | : Donald J. Hernandez |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 1993-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610442865 |
America's Children offers a valuable overview of the dramatic transformations in American childhood over the past fifty years, a period of historic shifts that reduced the human and material resources available to our children. Alarmingly, one fifth of all U.S. children now grow up in poverty, many are without health insurance, and about 30 percent never graduate from high school. Despite such conditions, economic, family, and educational programs for children earn low national priority and must depend on inconsistent state and local management. Drawing upon both historical and recent data, including census information from 1940 to 1980, Donald J. Hernandez provides a vivid portrait of children in America and puts forth a forceful case for overhauling our national child welfare policies. Hernandez shows how important revolutions in household composition and income, parental education and employment, childcare, and levels of poverty have affected children's well-being. As working wives and single mothers increasingly replace the traditional homemaker, children spend greater portions of time in educational and daycare facilities outside the home, and those with single mothers stand the greatest chance of being welfare dependent. Wider changes in society have created even greater stress for children in certain groups as they age: out-of-wedlock births are on the rise for white teenagers, half of all Hispanic youths never graduate high school, and violence accounts for nearly 90 per cent of all black teenage deaths. America's Children explores the interaction of many trends in children's lives and the fundamental social, demographic, and economic processes that lie at their core. The book concludes with a thoughtful analysis of the ability of families and government to provide for a new age of children, with emphasis on reducing racial inequities and providing greater public support for families, comparable to the family policies of other developed countries. As the traditional "Ozzie and Harriet" family recedes into collective memory, the importance of creating strong national policies for children is amplified, particularly in the areas of financial assistance, health insurance, education, and daycare. America's Children provides a compelling guide for reassessing the forces that shape our children and the resources available to safeguard their future. "In this conceptually creative, methodologically rigorous, and empirically rich book, Hernandez uses census and survey data to describe several quite profound changes that have characterized the life courses of America's children and their families over the last 50 to 150 years....this erudite book is destined to be a classic." —Richard M. Lerner, Contemporary Psychology "America's Children goes a long way toward informing the debate on the causes of increasing poverty, and it challenges some widely held misperceptions....its study of resources available to children (and their families) lays a valuable foundation for surveying trends in family structure, education, and income sources....Anyone interested in the changing lives of children should read it; anyone interested in understanding the causes and patterns of poverty, and in designing a better welfare system, must read it." —Ellen B. Magenheim, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Children |
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Author | : William J. Bennett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1998-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0684849305 |
Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Author | : Institute of Medicine and National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998-10-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309173930 |
America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
Author | : Traci Cook |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1437989276 |
The Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics develops priorities for collecting data on children and youth, improve the reporting and dissemination of information on the status of children to the policy community and the general public, and produce more complete data on children at the State and local levels. This report presents key indicators grouped in seven sections: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. In addition, this year's report includes a new indicator on teen immunizations that will allow the tracking of newly recommended adolescent vaccines. Extensive charts, tables and graphs. A print on demand report.
Author | : Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Children |
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Author | : David Allen Walsh |
Publisher | : Fairview Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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In Selling Out America's Children, author David Walsh examines why essential morals and values are missing in today's youth. We sell violence, irresponsible sex, and materialism to our children with the overwhelming power of modern media; in light of such odds, it is not surprising that parents find it increasingly difficult to counteract society's harmful messages. - Back cover.
Author | : James Alan Marten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814757162 |
Examining the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late 16th and late 18th centuries, this text contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonisation shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.
Author | : Peter Kline |
Publisher | : Inner Ocean Publishing |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Education |
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Kline argues, from experience as a teacher, researcher, and consultant in reading and accelerated learning skills, that standardized testing produces a population that can follow instructions, but it kills our greatest resource: the creative minds of our children.
Author | : Andrew Billingsley |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780155072718 |
Examines the reasons why the system of American child welfare is failing Black children.