See also:
- Action Alliance for Children: Policy Information on
Issues Affecting Children & Families - Publishes Children's Advocate newsmagazine
covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families. National and
California-wide scope; articles available on-line.
- Canadian Institute of Child Health -
Dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children and youth in Canada.
- Child Labor Coalition: Child
Labor News
- Child Welfare Services -
Extensive information and links related to child welfare issues including: child
well-being, child care, neglect, child abuse, kinship care, foster care, adoption, and
medical care. From the Welfare Information Network.
- Children Now - Child care, health insurance,
children and the media, child support, talking with kids about tough issues (sex, drugs,
HIV/AIDS, violence, etc.). U.S. scope, California focus.
- Children’s Budget Report
- A Detailed Analysis of Spending on Low-Income Children’s Programs in 13 States
(1998)
- Deadbeat moms and dads in America
- Exposes deadbeats across America by posting pictures and information of deadbeats sorted
by state. Also aims to create and maintain the funding for private investigations and
access to family law councilors and lawyers willing to help the less fortunate. You can
submit a picture and relevant information of a deadbeat parent to be posted on the site.
- Global Children's Organization -
Brings together children who've suffered the horrors of war and, with the help of
multinational volunteers, develops peace and reconciliation.
- Juvenile Justice (American Bar
Association) - Concerns include right to counsel and representation of delinquent
youth, juvenile detention and corrections reform, waiver of juveniles into adult criminal
courts, & overrepresention of minority children in the juvenile justice system.
- Kids COUNT - national and state-by-state
effort to track the status of children in the United States
- The Natural Child Project - Our vision is a
world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and
compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity
for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.
- Reforming the Nation's Family Court System -
Child custody for children of divorce. U.S. family courts. Concerns of divorced
non-custodial parents.
- Soho Center and the Child/2000 Project -
Including the National Children's Literacy Initiative. Working to enhance child care,
child nutrition, children's literacy, and school success on a national level through
innovative outreach and technology.
- UN Declaration of the Rights of the
Child - Also contains a transcript of a discussion on children's legal rights in
Australia.
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - UNICEF
works for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, guided in its
programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- U.S. Committee for UNICEF - Works in more than
160 countries and territories providing health care, clean water, improved nutrition, and
education to millions of children in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin
America, and the Middle East.
- Work-or-jail child
support requirement upheld by appeals court - The judge ruled work-or-jail was
"not slavery". (News item)
- YNIC & SCC-Social Change Center - YNIC is a
computer base, continuously updated, with over 300 different youth projects and 60
countries, all over the world.
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