Toward a Theory of Child Well-Being

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 887-902

  Raghavan, Ramesh ^a,b   Alexandrova, Anna ^c,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child development; Child well being; Philosophy; Social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939888232     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0665-z     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Abramson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E., & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,87(1), 49.
2. Aries, P. (1962). Centuries of childhood: A social history of family life. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
3. Aristotle. (circa 350 BCE.). Politics. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.2.two.html. Accessed 8 April 2013.
4. Axford, N. (2009). Child well-being through different lenses: Why concept matters. Child & Family Social Work,14(3), 372–383.
5. Ben-Arieh, A. (2010). Developing indicators for child well-being in a changing context. In C. McAuley & W. Rose (Eds.), Child well-being: Understanding children’s lives (pp. 129–142). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
6. Ben-Arieh, A., & Frønes, I. (2011). Taxonomy for child well-being indicators: A framework for the analysis of the well-being of children. Childhood,18(4), 460–476.
7. Ben-Arieh, A., & Goerge, R. M. (2006). Measuring and monitoring children’s well-being: The policy process. In A. Ben-Arieh & R. M. Goerge (Eds.), Indicators of children’s well-being (pp. 21–30). Dordrecht: Springer.
8. Bornstein, M. H., Davidson, L., Keyes, C. L., & Moore, K. A. (2012). Well-being: Positive development across the life course. New York: Psychology Press.
9. Bradshaw, J. (2006). The use of indicators of child well-being in the United Kingdom and the European Union. In A. Ben-Arieh & R. M. Goerge (Eds.), Indicators of children’s well-being: Understanding their role, usage, and policy influence (Vol. 27, pp. 63–81). Dordrecht: Springer.
10. Bradshaw, J., Hoelscher, P., & Richardson, D. (2007). An index of child well-being in the European Union. Social Indicators Research,80(1), 133–177.
11. Bremner, R. H. (1970). Children and youth in America: A documentary history. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
12. Brown, R. D. (1976). Modernization: The transformation of American life, 1600–1865 (American century series). New York, NY: Hill and Wang.
13. Brown, B. A., & Moore, K. (2005). Child and youth well-being: The social indicators field. In R. Lerner, F. Jacobs, & D. Wertlieb (Eds.), Applied developmental science: An advanced textbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
14. Caspi, A. (1987). Personality in the life course. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,53(6), 1203.
15. Buckley, C. (2013). Cheering a Setback to the City’s Drink Limits. (2013, March 11). The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/nyregion/many-in-ny-say-good-riddance-to-big-soda-ban.html. Accessed 16 April 2014.
16. Child Trends. (2014). Child trends data bank. http://www.childtrends.org/databank/indicators-by-topic-area/. Accessed 21 May 2014.
17. Crisp, R. (2013). Well-being. Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/well-being/. Accessed 16 April 2013.
18. deMause, L. (1995). The evolution of childhood. In L. deMause (Ed.), The history of childhood (pp. 1–73). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
19. Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., Schimmack, U., & Helliwell, J. F. (2008). Well-being for public policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
20. DiTommaso, M. L. (2006). Measuring the well being of children using a capability approach: An application to Indian data. http://www.child.unito.it/papers/child05_2006.pdf. Accessed 16 April 2013.
21. Dixon, S. D., & Stein, M. T. (2006). Encounters with children: Pediatric behavior and development. Chicago, IL: Year Book Medical Publishers.
22. Dobbin, F. (2004). The new economic sociology: A reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
23. Duffy, J. (1990). The sanitarians: A history of American public health (Illini books ed.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
24. Earls, F., & Carlson, M. (2001). The social ecology of child health and well-being. Annual Review of Public Health,22(1), 143–166.
25. Engel, J. (2006). Poor people’s medicine: Medicaid and American charity care since 1965. Durham: Duke University Press.
26. English, A., & Freundlich, M. (1997). Medicaid_ A key to health care for foster children and adopted children with special needs. Clearinghouse Review,106, 109–131.
27. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. (2012). America’s children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2012. http://www.childstats.gov. Accessed 13 April 2013.
28. Gemelli, R. J. (1996). Normal child and adolescent development. Chicago, IL: American Psychiatric Pub.
29. Gopnik, A. (2011). The philosophical baby: What children’s minds tell us about truth, love & the meaning of life. New York: Random House.
30. Grossmann, K., Grossmann, K. E., Kindler, H., & Zimmermann, P. (2008). A wider view of attachment and exploration: The influence of mothers and fathers on the development of psychological security from infancy to young adulthood. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (2nd ed., pp. 348–365). New York: Guilford.
31. Hacsi, T. (1995). From indenture to family foster care—A brief history of child placing. Child Welfare,74(1), 162–180.
32. Hanafin, S., & Brooks, A.-M. (2005). Report on the development of a national set of child well-being indicators in Ireland. Stationery Office.
33. Hanawalt, B. (1993). Growing up in medieval London: The experience of childhood in history. New York: Oxford University Press.
34. Hertzman, C., & Wiens, M. (1996). Child development and long-term outcomes: A population health perspective and summary of successful interventions. Social Science and Medicine,43(7), 1083–1095.
35. Joyce, P. W. (1968). A social history of ancient Ireland. New York: B. Blom.
36. Katz, M. S. (1976). A history of compulsory education laws. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
37. Katz, M. B. (1996). Saving children. In the shadow of the poorhouse (pp. 117–150). New York, NY: Basic Books.
38. Keyes, C. L., Shmotkin, D., & Ryff, C. D. (2002). Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,82(6), 1007–1022.
39. Kraut, R. (2009). What is good and why: The ethics of well-being. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
40. Land, K. C., Lamb, V. L., Meadows, S. O., & Taylor, A. (2007). Measuring trends in child well-being: An evidence-based approach. Social Indicators Research,80(1), 105–132.
41. Land, K. C., Lamb, V. L., & Mustillo, S. K. (2001). Child and youth well-being in the United States, 1975–1998: Some findings from a new index. Social Indicators Research,56(3), 241–318.
42. Levene, A. (2006). Family breakdown and the ‘Welfare Child’ in 19th and 20th century Britain. History of the Family,11, 67–79.
43. Lippman, L. H. (2007). Indicators and indices of child well-being: A brief American history. Social Indicators Research,83(1), 39–53.
44. Lippman, L. H., Moore, K. A., & McIntosh, H. (2011). Positive indicators of child well-being: A conceptual framework, measures, and methodological issues. Applied Research in Quality of Life,6(4), 425–449.
45. Magura, S., & Moses, B. (1986). Outcome measures for child welfare services. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.
46. Matthews, G. B. (1994). The philosophy of childhood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
47. Maughan, B., & Rutter, M. (1997). Retrospective reporting of childhood adversity: Issues in assessing long-term recall. Journal of Personality Disorders,11(1), 19–33.
48. Nelson, C. A., Zeanah, C. H., Fox, N. A., Marshall, P. J., Smyke, A. T., & Guthrie, D. (2007). Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: The Bucharest early intervention project. Science,318(5858), 1937–1940.
49. Nolan, J. L. (1998). The therapeutic state: Justifying government at century’s end. New York, NY: New York University.
50. Nussbaum, M. C. (2011). Creating capabilities: The human development approach. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
51. Olson, L. K. (2010). The politics of medicaid. New York: Columbia University Press.
52. Parfit, D. (1984). Reasons and persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
53. Pezdek, K. E., & Banks, W. P. (1996). The recovered memory/false memory debate. New York: Academic Press.
54. Pollard, E. L., & Lee, P. D. (2003). Child well-being: A systematic review of the literature. Social Indicators Research,61(1), 59–78.
55. Pollock, L. A. (1983). Forgotten children: Parent-child relations from 1500 to 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
56. Railton, P. (2008). Facts and values. Philosophical Topics,14(2), 5–31.
57. Rice, D., & Barone, S., Jr. (2000). Critical periods of vulnerability for the developing nervous system: Evidence from humans and animal models. Environmental Health Perspectives,108(Suppl 3), 511–533.
58. Rigby, M. J., Köhler, L. I., Blair, M. E., & Metchler, R. (2003). Child health indicators for Europe: A priority for a caring society. The European Journal of Public Health,13(Suppl 1), 38–46. doi:10.1093/eurpub/13.suppl_1.38.
59. Rousseau, J.-J., Kelly, C., & Bloom, A. D. (2010). Emile, or, On education: Includes Emile and Sophie, or, The solitaries (The collected writings of Rousseau, Vol. 13). Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
60. Scanlon, T. M. (1998). What we owe to each other. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
61. Schore, A. N. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self: The neurobiology of emotional development. New York: Psychology Press.
62. Sealander, J. (2003). The failed century of the child: Governing America’s young in the twentieth century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
63. Shonkoff, J. P., & Phillips, D. A. (Eds.). (2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
64. Simms, M. D. (1991). Foster children and the foster care system, Part I: History and legal structure. [Historical Article]. Current Problems in Pediatrics,21(7), 297–321.
65. Sobel, D. (2011). The limits of the explanatory power of developmentalism. Journal of Moral Philosophy,7(4), 372–383.
66. Sugden, R. (2006). Taking unconsidered preferences seriously. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement,59, 209.
67. Teitelbaum, M. S. (1984). The British fertility decline: Demographic transition in the crucible of the Industrial Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
68. Teschl, M., & Comim, F. (2005). Adaptive preferences and capabilities: Some preliminary conceptual explorations. Review of social economy,63(2), 229–247.
69. Thompson, E. P. (1968). The making of the English working class (New ed., Pelican books, A1000). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.
70. Tucker, M. J. (1995). The child as beginning and end. In L. deMause (Ed.), The history of childhood (pp. 229–257). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
71. United Nations Children’s Fund. (2012). The state of the World’s children 2012: Children in an urban World. http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/pdfs/SOWC 2012-Main Report_EN_13Mar2012.pdf. Accessed 15 April 2013.
72. United States Department of Health and Human Services., A. f. C. a. F., Children’s Bureau. (2006). Children and family services reviews: Procedures manual. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cfsr_procedures_manual.pdf. Accessed 8 April 2013.
73. Warren, S. L., Huston, L., Egeland, B., & Sroufe, L. (1997). Child and adolescent anxiety disorders and early attachment. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,36(5), 637–644.
74. Weaver, R. K. (2000). Ending welfare as we know it. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
75. Weisner, T. S. (1998). Human development, child well-being, and the cultural project of development. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development,1998(80), 69–85.
76. Welsh, M. C., Pennington, B. F., & Groisser, D. B. (1991). A normative-developmental study of executive function: A window on prefrontal function in children. Developmental Neuropsychology,7(2), 131–149.
77. Whittaker, W. G. (2004). Child labor in America: History, policy, and legislative issues. New York, NY: Novinka Books.
78. Wulczyn, F., Barth, R. P., Tuan, Y., Harden, B. J., & Landsverk, J. (2005). Beyond common sense: Child welfare, child well-being, and the evidence for policy reform. New Brunswick, NJ: AldineTransaction.
79. Yarcheski, A., Scoloveno, M. A., & Mahon, N. E. (1994). Social support and well-being in adolescents: The mediating role of hopefulness. Nursing Research,43(5), 288–292.
80. Zelizer, V. A. (1985). Pricing the priceless child: The changing social value of children. New York, NY: Basic Books.
81. Ziegler, E. E., & Nelson, S. E. (2012). The WHO growth standards: Strengths and limitations. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care,15(3), 298–302. doi:10.1097/MCO.0b013e3283511478.
82. Zigler, E., & Muenchow, S. (1992). Head start: The inside story of America’s most successful educational experiment. New York: BasicBooks.