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Indicators of Children's Well-Being

Theory and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Perspective

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  • Dec 2008

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Editors:
  1. Asher Ben-Arieh

    1. Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare Giv’at Ram, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Israel

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  2. Ivar Frones

    1. University of Oslo, Norway

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  • 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 children’s risk and well-being
  • Outlines pivotal methodological and conceptual issues of children’s well-being

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 36)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Social Indicators of Children Well Being: Past, Present, and Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Social Indicators of Children Well Being: Past, Present, and Future

      • Asher Ben-Arieh
      Pages 1-13

  3. Conceptualizing Indicators of Children Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Theorizing Indicators

      • Ivar Frønes
      Pages 17-35

    3. Children’S Conceptualisation(S) Of Their Well-Being

      • Toby Fattore, Jan Mason, Elizabeth Watson
      Pages 37-61

    4. Achieving Consensus In Developing A National Set Of Child Well-Being Indicators

      • Sinèad Hanafin, Anne-Marie Brooks, Ed Carroll, Eithne Fitzgerald, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Jane Sixsmith
      Pages 63-88

    5. Young People’S Perception Of Being Safe – Globally & Locally

      • Charlotte Fabiansson
      Pages 89-107

    6. Self-Reported Fears As Indicators Of Young Childrens Well-Being In Societal Change: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

      • Merle Taimalu, Anja Riitta Lahikainen, Piia Korhonen, Inger Kraav
      Pages 109-136

    7. Studying children in armed conflict: data production, social indicators and analysis

      • Jon Pedersen, Tone Sommerfelt
      Pages 137-156

    8. The Values Adolescents Aspire to, Their Well-being and the Values Parents Aspire to for Their Children

      • Ferran Casas, Cristina Figuer, Moñica González, Sara Malo
      Pages 157-176

  4. Types of Indicators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Longitudinal Indicators of the Social Context of Families: Beyond the Snapshot

      • Kristin Anderson Moore, Sharon Vandivere
      Pages 179-210

    3. The Well-Being Of 12 - To 16-Year-Old Adolescents And Their Parents: Results From 1999 To 2003 Spanish Samples1,2

      • Ferran Casas, Cristina Figuer, MÒNica GonzÁLez, Sara Malo, Carles Alsinet, Sandra Subarroca
      Pages 211-240

    4. Self-Reports Of Child Maltreatment In The U.S.: A Key Social Indicator

      • John E. Kesner
      Pages 241-248

    5. The Potential Role Of Conflict Resolution Schemas In Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment

      • GöRan Jutengren, Kerstin PalmèRus
      Pages 249-262

    6. Monitoring Indicators of Children’s Victimization in School: Linking National-, Regional-, and Site-Level Indicators

      • Rami Benbenishty, Ron Avi Astor
      Pages 263-278

  5. Indices of Children Well Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Indicators and Indices of Child Well-Being: A Brief American History

      • L.H. Lippman
      Pages 281-295

    3. Measuring Trends in Child Well-Being: An Evidence-Based Approach

      • Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah O. Meadows, Ashley Taylor
      Pages 297-324
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About this book

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 future fulfillment arising from present conditions. Of course, systematic statistics on children have existed for a long time. However, new development in data and analytic resources and growing interest in childhood among social scientists have combined to advance child well-being to the forefront of research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare Giv’at Ram, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Israel

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  • University of Oslo, Norway

    Ivar Frones

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Indicators of Children's Well-Being

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Perspective

  • Editors: Asher Ben-Arieh, Ivar Frones

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9304-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9303-6Published: 18 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8103-2Published: 28 October 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 590

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH, 80:1, 83:1 and 84:3 and CHILD INDICATORS RESEARCH, 1:1, 2008

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research, Child and School Psychology

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