This book provides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors
affecting the lives of Europe's children in the coming decades. It
is a sequel to a volume of the same name, published in 1979. Europe
is undergoing dramatic changes, demographic, political and
technological, which will influence the health, well-being and
potential of children. Children are an ever diminishing proportion
of the population and their interests rank low on the agenda of
most countries. Efforts to improve the quality of their life tend
to be uni-dimensional, focusing on a specific group or undertaken
by a specific discipline. The absence of co-operation, coordination
or even communication between professionals involved with children
and families results in inappropriateness, inaccessibility and
ineffectiveness of programmes for children and their families. Lack
of advocacy for children results in priority being given to other
groups.
This book brings together professionals and researchers from a
wide range of disciplines (maternal and child health, genetics,
psychology, psychiatry, social sciences, epidemiology, city
planning, education, law etc.), who participated in a conference,
discussed the issues and contributed chapters on topics which
appear to be of greatest importance, or to present new challenges,
for the healthy development of Europe's children and their passage
into a satisfying and productive adulthood. The chapters are
arranged in five sections dealing with family, environment, health,
education and state, with a final section covering the overall
projections. Reference is made to the predictions made in the
earlier volume, and the success or failure in basing action on
thosepredictions, and special emphasis is given to children with
special needs.
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