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Children's Chances - How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving (Hardcover)
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Children's Chances - How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving (Hardcover)
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Most parents care deeply about their children. If that were enough,
we would not see the inequalities we currently do in children's
opportunities and healthy development-children out of school,
children laboring, children living in poverty. While the scale of
the problems can seem overwhelming, history has shown that massive
progress is possible on problems that once seemed unsolvable.
Within the span of less than twenty-five years, the proportion of
people living in extreme poverty has been cut in half, the number
of children under age five that die each day has dropped by over
12,000, and the percentage of girls attending school has climbed
from just three in four to over 90 percent. National action, laws,
and public policies fundamentally shape children's opportunities.
Children's Chances urges a transformational shift from focusing
solely on survival to targeting children's full and healthy
development. Drawing on never-before-available comparative data on
laws and public policies in 190 countries, Jody Heymann and Kristen
McNeill tell the story of what works and what countries around the
world are doing to ensure equal opportunities for all children.
Covering poverty, discrimination, education, health, child labor,
child marriage, and parental care, Children's Chances identifies
the leaders and the laggards, highlights successes and setbacks,
and provides a guide for what needs to be done to make equal
chances for all children a reality.
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