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Child well-being, child poverty and child policy in modern nations (Revised 2nd Edition): What do we know?

Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding

Abstract

Child poverty and the well-being of children is an important policy issue throughout the industrialised world. Some 47 million children in ‘rich’ countries live in families so poor that their health and well-being are at risk. The main themes addressed in this book are: the extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations; outcomes for children – for example, the relationship between childhood experiences and children's health; country studies and emerging issues; and child and family policies. All the contributions underline the urgent need for a comprehensive policy to reduce chil ... More

Keywords: child well-being, child poverty, child policy, children, industrialised nations, health, family policies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9781861342539
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861342539.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Koen Vleminckx, editor

Timothy M. Smeeding, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

In memory of Dr Hugh Brendan Davies

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction

Koen Vleminckx, and Timothy M. Smeeding

Part 1 The extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations

One Child poverty across the industrialised world: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Bruce Bradbury, and Markus Jäntti

Two Poverty across states, nations, and continents

Lee Rainwater, Timothy M. Smeeding, and John Coder

Part 2 Outcomes for children

Three Values, policies and the well-being of young children in Canada, Norway and the United States

Shelley Phipps

Four Child well-being in the EU – and enlargement to the East

John Micklewright, and Kitty Stewart

Five Childhood experiences, educational attainment and adult labour market performance

Paul Gregg, and Stephen Machin

Six The impact of poverty on children’s school attendance – evidence from West Germany

Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick, Peter Krause, and Gert G. Wagner

Seven Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults

Anne H. Gauthier, and Frank F. Furstenberg

Eight Gender inequality in poverty in affluent nations: the role of single motherhood and the state

Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross, and Timothy M. Smeeding

Part 3 Country Studies and Emerging Issues

Nine The impact of economic change on child welfare in Central Asia

Jane Falkingham

Ten The evolution of child poverty in Ireland

Brian Nolan

Eleven Living conditions of immigrant children in Germany

Joachim R. Frick, and Gert G. Wagner

Twelve Who has borne the cost of Britain’s children in the 1990s?

Hugh Davies, and Heather Joshi

Thirteen The public and private costs of children in Australia, 1993–94

Richard Percival, and Ann Harding

Fourteen Socioeconomic circumstances in Europe and North America among school-aged children

Candace Currie

Part 4 Child and Family Policies 

Fifteen Income inequalities and poverty among children and households with children in selected OECD countries

Howard Oxley, Thai-Thanh Dang, Michael F. Förster, and Michele Pellizzari

Sixteen Reducing child poverty in the European Union: the role of child benefits1

Herwig Immervoll, Holly Sutherland, and Klaas de Vos

Seventeen Public policies that support families with young children: variation across US states

Marcia K. Meyers, Janet C. Gornick, Laura R. Peck, and Amanda J. Lockshin

Eighteen Income transfers and support for mothers’ employment: the link to family poverty risks1

Cristina Solera

Nineteen Child support among selected OECD countries: a comparative analysis

James Kunz, Patrick Villeneuve, and Irwin Garfinkel

Twenty Child and family policies in an era of social policy retrenchment and restructuring

Sheila B. Kamerman, and Alfred J. Kahn

General Conclusions What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Koen Vleminckx, and Timothy M. Smeeding

End Matter

Index