ED418794 PS026456
Title: The State of America's Children. Yearbook: 1998.
Author(s): Martinez, Susanne, Ed.; Dahl, Kathryn Kline, Ed.
Author Affiliation: Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC.(BBB13369)
Pages: 153
Publication Date: 1998
Notes: For 1995 yearbook, see ED 390 536. For 1996 yearbook, see ED
398 997. For 1997 yearbook, see PS 026 455.
Sponsoring Agency: DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville,
NY. (BBB12599)
ISBN: 1-881985-16-4
ISSN: 1084-3191
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Language: English
Document Type: Collected works--Serials (022); Numerical/Quantitative
Data (110); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIESEP1998
This Children's
Defense Fund 1998 report on the well being of America's children
highlights the critical need for renewed commitment to children
by all sectors of society. The introduction describes health and
educational outcomes for poor children and calls for adults to redirect
their priorities and develop solutions to these problems. The report
details the following: (1) family income, including the pervasiveness
of child poverty, the impact of welfare reform, and inadequate child
support; (2) child health, including the problem of uninsured children,
new developments in Medicaid coverage, managed care, and maternal
and child health; (3) child care, describing federal, state, and
local initiatives, uneven state progress, and recent research findings;
(4) child nutrition, including food stamp reductions, state procedures,
problems of immigrant children, and subsidized meal programs; (5)
children and families in crisis, including permanency planning,
kinship care, community partnerships, special population needs,
and focusing on outcomes; (6) violence committed to and by children,
including the move toward stiffer penalties for juvenile offenders
and prevention measures; and (7) adolescent pregnancy. Two appendices
provide tabulated data on children nationwide and by state, covering
areas such as poverty, maternal and infant health, adolescent childbearing,
youth unemployment, government aid participation, child support,
Head Start enrollment, child abuse and neglect, and firearm deaths.
Web sites of interest to child advocates are listed.(SD/KB)
Descriptors: *At Risk Persons; Child Abuse; Child Development; *Child
Health; Child Welfare; Childhood Needs; Day Care; Early Parenthood;
Educational Improvement; Elementary Secondary Education; Employed
Parents; Family Environment; Family Income; Federal Aid; Federal
Legislation; Financial Support; Government Role; Poverty; Preschool
Education; *Social Indicators; Social Problems; State Programs;
Tables (Data); Victims of Crime; Violence; *Well Being
Identifiers: *Indicators
