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A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Child Indicators

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This chapter provides readers with an overview of the child indicator field with a particular focus on the use of child indicators in ongoing projects to promote child well-being. Some of the key concepts regarding child indicators are introduced and described, including the concept of a child indicator. This chapter contains information on the origins of the child indicator movement as well as material on why indictors are so important for promoting the well-being of children. The contents of each chapter in the book are described along with the expected audience for the book.

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    The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (during President Clinton’s administration), but the United States has not ratified it. In the United States system, to be ratified the treaty would have to be passed by two-thirds of the Senate and signed by the President. Despite internal efforts to persuade the United States to ratify the UNCRC there is no indication that this is likely to happen soon and there is clearly some opposition to the United States ratifying the UNCRC (Kilbourne, 1998).

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O’Hare, W. (2022). Introduction and Overview. In: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Child Indicators. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90291-9_1

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