Indicators of Children's Well-Being

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

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.

• Child Maltreatment
• Peers
• child indicators
• children
• children's well being
• development
• measuring well being

• 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

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