From the Editor's Desk
The Information Age: A Brave New World?
Electronic communication technologies such as television and the computer are providing new opportunities as well as creating new challenges to family and community life.
By Brian Wilcox |
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Family Life Today
Children and Families in the Information Age
The difficult task confronting children and families at the end of the 20th century is learning how best to use and negotiate the vast information system available to them via television and computer technologies.
By John Murray |
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Alternative Views
The following three articles discuss the merits of new mechanisms designed to control what childeren are exposed to on television and over the internet.
The V-Chip: A Simple Solution to the Effects of Television Violence?
Many people think the V-chip and a televison rating system will help parents to keep their children from watching violent television shows. However, the best way to combat the impact that television violence has on children may be for parents to watch these programs with their children and discuss what they see.
By Elizabeth Bandy |
Uses and Abuses of TV Ratings
Will the "age-based, movie-style rating system" being applied to television truly help parents protect their children from being exposed to sex, violence and foul language on the tube?
By George Gerbner
Does Internet Blocking Software Work?
Computer blocking software is just one piece of the puzzle in guiding children toward appropriate material on the Internet.
By Mark Handel and Paul Resnick
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Innovations on the Frontline
Children’s Express: Giving Youth a Voice
Since 1975, Children’s Express news organization has provided a way
for children and teenagers of diverse backgrounds to have a voice in the
mainstream.
By Vicky Hallett |
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Kids Voting USA Is Participation!
Kids Voting USA seeks to involve children in the voting process by allowing
them to cast a ballot at official polling sites.
By Paula Case and Cynthia p. Dunne |
Ready, Willing, and Able: Helping Children with PKU Live
“Normal” Lives
A week-long summmer camp in Massachusetts integrated 17 children who have a
genetic disorder with “well” children and designed camp activities
based on what the child with PKU said they wanted from their camp experience.
By Susan Waisbren |
South Carolina YOUth Connected: Giving Foster and Adopted
Children a Voice
The South Carolina Department of Social Services publishes a newsletter
that allows foster and adopted children to share their experiences with each other
and to ask questions about child welfare policies.
By Carl Holman |
Reaching Youth Through Voluntary Community Service
The Teen Outreach Program has had dramatic success in reducing teen
pregnancy and school failure. |
Making it Happen
Preparing Children and Adolescents for Stressful Events and Life Decisions
Studies show that children benefit from both technical and sensory
information, as well as training in the use of specific coping strategies
to help them prepare for some events and situations in their lives.
By Karen Saywitz and Lorinda Camparo |
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Courtwatch
United states Law and the Children’s Convention
The Children’s Convention owes more to the U. S. Bill of Rights and
developing American constitutional doctrine than any other stream of
thought or political development elsewhere in the world.
By Robert E. Sheperd, Jr. |
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Lessons From Abroad
Children, Participation, and Democracy: A Case Study of the Statute of
the Child and Adolescent in Brazil
In 1990, Brazil passed landmark legislation that in essence promotes the
participation of communities, families, and children themselves in
children’s well-being.
By Irene Rizzini, Gary Barker, and Neide Cassaniga |
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View from the Other Side
California Foster Youth Write Their Own Bill of Rights
A former foster youth discusses his experiences in “the system”
and a California bill that would improve how children in foster care
would be treated.
By Kevin Harrington |
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