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A Child's Right to a Healthy EnvironmentAnchoring and Empowering Children: A Child’s Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment

A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment: Anchoring and Empowering Children: A Child’s Right to... [I begin this chapter with the question, has the USA done enough to anchor all children living in the USA to the relationships, experiences, and opportunities vital to empowering them with the capacities necessary to exert their right to participation? With an estimated 13 million children living in poverty (Faas & Cauthen, 2008), 1.3 million living in homelessness (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), 2007), 8.5 million without health insurance (National Center on Health Care (NCHC), 2009), 92,854 incarcerated males (OJJDP, 2008), and 25% not graduating from high school, (President Obama, 2009) the answer to this question appears to be a resounding no.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Child's Right to a Healthy EnvironmentAnchoring and Empowering Children: A Child’s Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment

Part of the The Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children Book Series (volume 1)
Editors: Garbarino, James; Sigman, Garry
Bruyere, Edmund B.
A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment — Aug 28, 2010
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Publisher
Springer New York
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
ISBN
978-1-4419-6789-3
Pages
183 –198
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-6791-6_10
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Abstract

[I begin this chapter with the question, has the USA done enough to anchor all children living in the USA to the relationships, experiences, and opportunities vital to empowering them with the capacities necessary to exert their right to participation? With an estimated 13 million children living in poverty (Faas & Cauthen, 2008), 1.3 million living in homelessness (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), 2007), 8.5 million without health insurance (National Center on Health Care (NCHC), 2009), 92,854 incarcerated males (OJJDP, 2008), and 25% not graduating from high school, (President Obama, 2009) the answer to this question appears to be a resounding no.]

Published: Aug 28, 2010

Keywords: Cooperative Learning; Juvenile Delinquency; Spiritual Development; Asset Accumulation; Developmental Asset

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