The New Importance of Children in America [Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health]
With massive demographic shifts taking place, the way we raise, educate, and care for all children has reached a new level of importance. Ensuring children’s health and well-being in the U.S. is critical to the nation’s economic and political future, according to The New Importance of Children , a report co-funded by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and Children’s Hospital Association. Declining birthrates mean that each child is proportionately more important to society...