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An Index of the Condition of Children: The Ideal and a Less-than-Ideal U.S. Example

May 01, 2007
Author:
Sharon Vandivere

The paper provides an overview of the history of child well-being indicators and distinguish indices of child well-being from indices of the condition of children. It uses recent data to create indices that tally the number of problems or risks that individual children experience.

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Sharon Vandivere