The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel

The number of children living in poverty in the United States increased dramatically during the 1980s and remains high. Why are so many children growing up in p

Ten studies examine poor children in the US and the efforts to help them. They include the demographics, some of the reasons for poverty, maltreatment by famili

Poverty declined significantly in the decade after Lyndon Johnson's 1964 declaration of "War on Poverty." Dramatically increased federal funding for education a

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the opportunities and challenges involved in mainstreaming knowledge about children in internat