Book Details

What Do Children Need to Flourish?

Publication year: 2005

: 978-0-387-23823-4

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Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, disintegration of the nuclear family, technology that replaces interpersonal relationships—that’s what you hear in the news. The media, through its dramatization of the dangers and risks children confront and pose, have created a well-established image of disenfranchised, hostile, and often-destructive children and adolescents. This image ignores the many children who are thriving as well as the possibility of positive outcomes for children and youth.


: Behavioral Science, Image, Integration, Nation, Sex, assessment, development, environment, youth